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Security on Lands PUNISHMENT vice FORFEITURE absolute in TREASON.

Instance General Fishing at Newfoundland retained as a pledge. While the prospect of recovering their fortunes is kept in view, those fortunes are a pledge which incessantly call upon them by submission & every serviceable operation in their power to redeem it; It is a tye which continues by a silent but irresistible because continued & unremitted attraction draws them to their duty: the absolute forfeiture is the breaking of that tye: they have made up their mind to the contemplation of the calamity which they understand to be indefensible, by one effort they have burst your chains, & your have lost your hold for ever hold on them is gone Seizure of Lands & profits of principal Monies to be only temporary, renewable
at pleasure by annual Proclamation. Great difference between this &
perpetual. Blackstone a double doctrine like the Egyptians & ancient Philosophers

A severity which cuts off their hopes by the roots at once severs at a stroke the tie which drew them to the obedient
duty, & pushes them off to a desperation, which at the same time that it gives a vigor to their efforts of hostility makes the continuance of them no longer a metter of choice but of necessity

There is a great deal of difference between an effort's being accessory to continue Punishment, & it's being
necessary to make it cease. + + Instance 3 g Articles which would hardly be established were the thing to do now. Right will much sooner take place when mere inaction is sufficient
make it do so, than when it requires an effort of activity in which many must concur, with no In
to prompt them, with many pretences to decline it, interested after by their passions to oppose it: what Punishment
cease the instant it ceases to be necessary, is a that I think will hardly be denied: & that it will be more likely
would be by another means, when a continued exertion is necessary to keep it .

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	096	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	176	Info in main headings field	punishment vice forfeiture absolute in treas<…>
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	31180
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