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14 Feby 1808

An evil more remote in station but not less serious
in kind, or weight high in degree may serve to close the
list.

A deficiency in respect of intellectual aptitude, natural
or acquired, on the part of the members of this judicatory, is among the imperfections that have been
charged upon Scottish judicature the highest Scottish judicatory.

The evil supposing it realized is of a compleat
nature: it is connected with corruption, shedding a baleful influence operating upon a
still more extensive scale.

Where unfit Supposing that into these high judicial seats, unfit
men are capable of being placed, without their being exposed exposing themselves
and consequently without their exposing the author of their
fortune to that degree of disrepute and reproach
which would attach upon him in the contrary case,
the judicatory becomes a sort of alms house or hospital for the reception
of the infirm infirmity intellectual and moral, and the faculty of filling it with such
men patients becomes an instrument of corruption in the hands
of the in which this part of the portfolio of benefices
is placed.

But under the arrangement here denounced nothing can be
more favourable to this complicated system of abuse than the
condition in which a member of the Court of Session finds
himself placed.


Identifier: | JB/091/215/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.

Date_1

1808-02-14

Marginal Summary Numbering

16-17

Box

091

Main Headings

scotch reform

Folio number

215

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

e9

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

29211

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