JB/081/004/002

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7 1826 July 9
London Petition

Morals corrupted

We complain that by the
established system of judicature in
both branches but
more particularly in
the Equity branch and
those by whom it is upholden
the substance of the
is not more unmerciful as scandalously
and prayed
upon than their morals
are corrupted
are by all manner
of devices endeavoured
to be corrupted
that to an
in the of plaintiff
the which feeble clause is
here of obtaining a
relief always inadequate
is now
to him without being sold
for the benefit of the Judge
and then instruments or
vouchers sold, unsold
to him have but upon
condition of his defiling
himself at the outset
by a tissue of lies
forced by them into
his mouth.

that while on some
occasion they are content
with the subornation
of simple mendacity
on others they simply
not by the like extortionate
means, always
for them as profit
to practice subornation
of perjury

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In proof of the claim
it is unfair for me to
observe what no one
we are assured will have
the confidence to deny
that in consequence of
information extracted
by questions put and
answered by word of mouth
in presence of a Judge
information in the
same relative to the
same fact expressed
in the form of a written
and affidavit after a
long course of premeditation
and consultation between
a dishonest man and
his professional and
learned accomplice
is altogether without
reasonable claim to coincidence

Not while all the
doors of the judicature
are inexorably shut
against evidence in this
its best shape they are
kept wide open to ordure information
in relation to the same fact in this its indisputably
worse shape
Why in that best
shape requested in its
worst shape when received
Why: but that by the
Judges and their assistants
nothing little would be
got by the receipt of the
evidence in its good shape
which profit
to an enormous amount
is made by the existence of
it in the worse shape
or shapes in which perjury
being without of all
but a normal contract

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evidence clear of perjury
is almost without exception

We beg here on this occasion
to as a
matter of fact altogether
notorious that for any
affidavit filed in his
Judiciary the Chancellor
receives his profit — that
for profit from this
as well as other sources
his appetite is insatiable
— that he is continually
calling for
affidavit after affidavit
engaging
them by a form not
to be resisted in the
endless cause of perjury
that over and
over again that in
the public private
practice has been
charged upon him,
and that though frequently
making the
charge with
reason to have
more to deny
the fact.

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In the face of the good
people of the country
of England and of the
whole world
in respect of which will
this one complaint be to
serve we call upon
Your Honourable House
to put an end at
length to the course of
oppression and depredation
of pretended bigotry and
real hypocracy
and that may
no longer be suffered to
be made a cloak to
men every day of whose
lives are employed as
the evidence and
ado in the effort to be of cutting up
practice morality by the roots.

Identifier: | JB/081/004/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
Date_1	1826-07-09	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	004	Info in main headings field	london petition
Image	002	Titles
Category	rudiments sheet (brouillon)	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	25791
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