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performed. Then it is that, to an indefinite
amount, all twelve are made to
suffer, that that same number of
them, from one to eleven, may be made,
and untill they have been made to utter
a wilful falshood, and thus break the
oath which they have just been made
to take, under the notion of it's preventing
them from uttering this same
falshood.

True it is – that, if any one
of them there be, in whose instance
pain has had the effect of causing him
no longer to entertain the opinion first
entertained by him, but to entertain,
instead of it, the opposite opinion declared
by the verdict, no such falshood
will in his instance have been uttered.
But exists there that person who can
really believe that, in the case in question,
pain can have any such effect?

And even supposing the
effect produced, where is the benefit to
justice? of the two opposite verdicts,
to which is it that the pain will produce
the transition? for it presses upon
the whole number of them. Upon the adoption
of the verdict eventually delivered,
as well as upon the opposers of it: and
whichever of the verdicts it be that is thus

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good purpose, now to the bad purpose in relation
to which it is efficient.

Such as above, then, being
the general result – on each occasion, giving to
the strongest will the power of giving or withdrawing
execution and effect to the law: behold now the
particular effects with which it is naturally
pregnant. One case excepted, of which presently,
behold in how serious a degree they are maleficent.

1. First as to justice –. Assured
professor of the irresistible will, the fabled
wishing Cap is yours: enter in triumph into
any Jury box you please: on you will depends
the verdict.

Compared with this power
of your's, what is the influence of the most
skilful Judge? He can but cajole: you
necessitate. Behold how sure your success,
how small the cost of it. Every time the
Jury have staid out of Court so much as
an hour – not to say every time they have
gone out of Court at all – there has been a
difference of opinion, and next to a certainty,
perjury. In no one instance endurances
of the uneasiness for so long a
term as 48 hours has ever been known. Your's
being the verdict, behold in this sufferance
the limits of the utmost price you can
have to pay for it.

Man of desperate fortunes!

Identifier: | JB/081/181/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	181	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c5 / c6 / c11 / c12
Penner		Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	25968
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