JB/091/195/001

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22 Feby 1808
on Ld Eldon's Bill

Whe The Bill which thus bears on the front face of it the
name and superscription of the Lord High Chancellor, if
it were necessary or so much to of necessity, or were with legal truth and
propriety congruity it were to be considered as the wish of that noble and learned
head and ornament dignitary of the law would a commentator lay me under a
very distressing embarrassment, or rather condemn me him to total
silence.

To the implement of much which we hear so often under the name of the seal of office To the seals of office, this second person in dignity
after the inheritors and others of royal blood, adds another of which
for in this Country is without a name, but which for
being so little spoken of is not the less thought of – one
implement which in the language of the red book of ci-devant
France used to be stiled the port-folio of benefices.

That in any part of the mental frame, intellectual or
moral, of the possessor for the time being of this talisman, is in any work that bears his name or in any of the works that issue from it moral, any the least speck of imperfection should be discovered
has in legal intendment as in the history of how impeachment apart, ever since the Revolutionary born altogether without
precedent. The King never can do wrong; his Chancellor
never does. The King is all perfection, during
life: his Chancellor is all perfection, during office, that is during
his Majesty's pleasure. So far as mere body is concerned
the description of this luminary of the law changes varies with each individual:
he may be tall or short, plump or lean, fair or brown like
any other human creature. But as to for the more
refined and pretious part of the comparison being the mind
between the Chancellor of one year and the Chancellor of another year
there never has been nor in the nature of things ever can be any
the smallest difference. Unfortunately the likeness of the mind
can not be exhibited delineated from any pallet, nor by any chisel.
If it could one picture image, a picture an image which to in regard to should be what
the image of the Belvedere Apollo is in regard to body, might serve for
the Lord High Chancellor, for the time being – for all and every the Lord
Chancellor or Lord Chancellors
down to the end of time.

Identifier: | JB/091/195/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1808-02	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	195	Info in main headings field	on ld eldons bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	29191
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