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old Law, which by perpetual certain experience has been + + found to produce a very signal and considerable degree of misery, and prevent (as far as such a proposition negation can possibly be proved) little or may I at length venture to say none — found proved
ineffectual — the Question is not whether, having a
power to put a stop to a mischief, we shall put a
stop to it or no? but having visibly & experimentally no such power whether having exhausted against
it the strongest most powerful forcible of our expedients, we shall persist
in combating it at a loss — Whether because a
considerable quantity of misery useless for a long time has been
regularly produced we shall continue it's production,
having it in our power to make it care? we might
almost call venture here to call in the dangerous assistance
of the Poet or the Orator, to display the
cruelty of such a conduct. resolution.

I have before observed how little reason demand there appears
to be in the present situation of this country for as
[minute and] anxious attention to population the minutiae of Mr Burke
and with him every almost member of present it an illustrious assembly
in which not long ago + date & occasion to be specified this matter will came incidentally
to be considered will bear witness to [this truth] not hesitated believe to give their sanction to the remark
[the truth of this remark] But were such an attention
by some sudden [& unforeseen] calamity become
necessary, I could not propose a more what would be in my opinion
a more effectual expedient to compass the object of
that attention, than the simple repeal of this Law,

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Identifier: | JB/096/219/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	096	Main Headings	legislation
Folio number	219	Info in main headings field	homicide - of infants
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c19
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	31223
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