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Place and Time
Offenses against the Sovereignty

The standing principle of the good old
English common law is that the King is every
thing: and that if the common happiness<add>welfare</add> of the people is
worth attending to it is because they are his
property. Is a criminal to be punished? it
is because he has broken the King's peace. Is
civil justice to be administered? it is that the
ears of Majesty may find rest. [from the clamour of the suitors]. + Does this King immortal personage chance happen to die? All
delegated power goes with him into the grave? Is the
peace of the Kingdom any longer worth preserving? Yes, +
+ provided the successor should chance to think so.

The laws of concerning treason are so admirably ingeniously
that In conformity to these principles treason if so long as it touch not the person of the
King is nothing: left unpunishable<add>unimpeachable:</add> so that if a faction were to
conspire with or for the King against the other members
of the sovereignty, in order to punish them
you must say they conspired against him:
And the most mischievous of all treasons is
that which of their own authority Judges have made created so in contradiction
to the positive letter of the statute law.
There In Bengal there is no King: there is consequently
no treason. It is not then without reason that
Bengal has is called the Paradise of nations.
treason the first earliest of sins and the greatest of
will not have it in these inscite in
Ireland Hibernia

But in England there is a trading company of merchants:
and this company may is allowed to say, Bengal
is my counting-house, ware-house: and if when a man shall have
set it on fire, he shall be turned out. Such is the
provision

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	100	Main Headings	influence of time and place
Folio number	012	Info in main headings field	place and time
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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