JB/091/087/001

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6 Feby 1807

Your Lordship sees, how necessary an implement instrument this
power of investigation is, to the hand of justice, in the character of an instrument of
justice. Without it the is Deprive her of it she loses sometomes
a part, sometimes the whole of the stock of evidence which to which
the cause affords the transaction has given birth. When part only, What she loses is the best part and
most trustworthy unexceptionable part; the what she gets, is the part remains to her is the portion in the production
of which the partiality of the witness to the party served
by it may have borne a part more or less considerable.

Conceive, my Lord what wer in the field of criminal law would,
be the situation of the country, were it bereft of the powers
exert of this sort description exercised by the Justices of the Peace in cases of applied in this way by Justices of Peace to the bringing to
light and securing the necessary evidence in the case of
predatory and other felonies. They would as in the days of
What would be the state of In what condition would the country
be in respect of internal security and peace? In the condition Sir
even in the reign of Hen. 8th, which in a population perhaps
not much more than half that of the present time, the mass of delinquency
raised to the rank of felony not half so great as
at present, afforded in years to the goodly fellowship of
Executioners 70,000 patients with their 70,000 fees.

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Identifier: | JB/091/087/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1807-02-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	087	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c13
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	iping 1804
Marginals		Paper Producer	bernardino rivadavia
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1804
Notes public	"omitt or postpone"	ID Number	29083
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