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Click Here To Edit 30 Jany 1809 Peines
How in all this where is the "trust" part in the benignity
of the crown? and by whom is it that it is part? DeathHanging
is the object with the Member: and all that is possible
for man in his situation to doman can do towards bringing it to
pass bear he does, viz. by shewing how more are hanged for
potatoes. Hanging in the new case of turnips is the object with the Attorney: and all
that in his situation more can can be done do towards bringing it to
bear, he does of course viz.
by inscribing on the Bill after the
word felony, the words without benefit of clergy ... If, for the
pleasuresatisfaction of seeing the thief after he has been when caught in Dr
Paley's net hanged by the neck, from the [+] would be willing to give his [+] manufacturer of surplusage would have been
case, what more could he have done than he have done?
The advisors of the crown are all this while in the habit it is true of advising the
preaching of these laws as fast as made: which and this habit
he either our surplusage - maker thinks of or does not think of. But let him
think of it now or, what could can be do is there thatthat
is in his power to do towards altering it? Shall he more
could the Reverend Doctor have been more that a clause
be inserted, for applying either in the case on the occasion of turnip stealers
in particular, or of thieves in general or of malefactors in
general, a restraint upon this branch of the prerogative?
An application of this A motion to any such effect would stand about
smallas good a chance of carrying through helping forward the Bill, as of recommending
homthe Honourable means to the favour of the Reverend Doctor, or of theseof such any
of his pupilsdisciples. to whose palate his compound of death and arbitrary power are as pleasant as to the preceptors.
who thinks as he does.
A trust of this sortthe sort thus dreamt of supposes a confirmer and co-operation
-a confirmer between the royal wearer of the crownseat of benignity,
and the Honourable patron of turnips - such as never yet had
place - but in the ofsame such reason of an author such as Blackstone the writer of some romance
or power in prose in the constitution, or a College Tutor, such as the Reverend Doctor,
by whom the romance is taken or pretended to be taken for truth, for simple truth.
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