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1826 July 9
London petition

Harshness apologies
for

We could not without
the utmost reluctance
bring more
the sincerest
look in the face this
appalling truth, nor
without de unfeigned
apprehension and reluctance prevail
upon members to present offer
them to the view
of the Honourable House
But it was and is
our firm conviction
that at no less price
was it possible to obtain
any the smallest probability
of seeing
the ends of justice
take place at last
of the actual ends of
judicature

No palliatives — no
half measures could
have any better effect
than that of giving
stability and to the
what ought to be eradicated

No code influence of
opinion or opinions
could be left in the
hands from in which
the system of abuse
had originally its
creation and continues
to have its preservers
without its being employed applied
in the exclusion endeavour
of all efficient measures
and the substitution of
the most inefficient that can be devised.

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Cause of bad Procedure

Of all these crying
evils we see the root
in one enormous source
of corruption — the shape mode
in which the remuneration
for their official
service finds its way
into the pockets of
the Chief Judges
and other Judiciary Officers
of Justice who to the
situation of Judge
and that of Legislators.
protecting and
enlarging in the
period put to such a
system of oppression
and depredation above in
one place humiliation misery
and penury all taken, in another
superior the sinister
profit which they
have given to themselves
in the subordinate
situation: in
one word in fees
substituted to salary,
fees.

These fees are in
part paid directly
into the pockets of the
Judges themselves:
party into the pocket
of subordinates of
theirs of whom they
have the nomination
having possessing at the same time
to the exclusion of all other
authorities, the controul
over their conduct.

the patron having at the
same time the power of disposing
of their several
Offices to their own
profit and advantage.

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We beg here to point
out to the House We beg here to draw
the attention of the House.

We supplicate entreat
the attention of the
Honourable House
to the disease itself, to
the cause of it,
and to the the appropriate
and only adequate remedy.

☞ After speaking of
the corruptive effect of
fees, and the patronage
of fee gathering Offices
speak of the Legislature
having been taken by
surprize and induced
the sum to lend its
sanction
to a system so pregnant
with extortion
and corruption in
the most manifest
and bare-faced shapes.

The We beg leave to declare
to the Honourable
House that an imposition
so gross has
not passed upon us,
that our eyes are
fully open to it,
and that not long
the time has not long
to run when those
of all our fellow subjects
countrymen will be
so too.

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Truths uncontravertible

1. Every penny exacted
by a as judicial
judicial
proceedings places all
a
certain number of the people
who are unable to pay it
In a state of outlawry

2. Every penny, exacted
by the means of a fee
by a Judge or
other functionary bearing
a part in the administration
of justice, place
all who are unable to
bring it in to a state of
outlawry

As often as To the facts
by which the corruption of
the Judges and their confidantes
are prized by
individual example
our broad assertion of
impossibility is opposed
in the way of answer
and of the for proof
of this impossibility as
we are referred to the
unexampled purity to
which men in these high
situations have at all
times been distinguished

For himself and their own interest no one of
them has any regard
at his request desire ever
absorbed in by his anxiety
for the welfare of
the people committed to
his charge.

Thus are we the people called
upon for our assent to a
proposition which nowhere
has nor so long as the
species lasts ever can be
true of any person
breathing: and which
by peculiar circumstance
is ordered on the instance
of their own class of one rendered
further from the truth than in that of any other whatsoever.

Identifier: | JB/081/005/003 "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	005	Info in main headings field	london petition
Image	003	Titles
Category	rudiments sheet (brouillon)	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	25792
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