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14 Feby 1808

II. Under the name of analogous Stentor Authority having pronounced bellowed forth his ipsidixit, let
us lend an ear, if we can prevail upon ourselves if possible the fatigue be endurable, to the
"still small voice" of reason: observing and let us observe how, without any
unagreeable advantage, the proceeding procedure in the case is infected with the several
evils opposite to the several ends of justice.

1. Evil the first – encreased danger of misdecision: for want viz. misdecision
in the superior judicatory above for want of sufficient information.

From the judicatory of a judge is become who has collected possessed himself of whatsoever
portion of information he has chosen it has pleased him to collect in relation
to the cause, it is sent off by him for further procedure and
decision to another judicatory composed of judges who which whatsoever ulterior
information it may please them to collect have not received
undiminished those light the whole body of light which had presented
itself to the eye stationed on the inferior level: in its
passage through that lower seated medium it can seldom fail to have undergone diminution to a greater or less amount, though to what
amount it is impossible to say by any general rule.

Even allowing that the whole body of light information has passed
on entry, still no advantage in the respect in question can
be pointed out as resulting from the change. Having begun the
cause suit, what should hinder him from going on with it and finishing
it?

Another source of misdecision is this – From a
judicatory composed of constituted by a single Judge, who has no colleagues
to thwart his operations and perplex his thoughts, the suit
by this reference is lodged in a many-seated judicatory,
in which in this first stage of the cause suit (for at the stage of
appeal the case is different) finds as many obstructors and perplexers
as he sees colleagues.

3. Then comes the anticlimax already pointed out dwelt upon in the first of these letters
a cause transferred from a single Judge, charged subjected as such with to the whole of responsibility
in the greatest form
to a many seated judicatory
composed of judge amongst which one which the price of
that check is in a great degree
dissipated and lost.

Identifier: | JB/091/211/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1808-02-14	Marginal Summary Numbering	11-12
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	211	Info in main headings field	on ld eldons bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	29207
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