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Supposing your Lordships not to be precluded left at liberty judgement
by law, in this respect not chained absolutely confined by any legal tie, your Memorialist humbly conceives that
were it merely out of decorum and reverence towards
of character an official an authority which has so much claim to reverence,
your Lordships would at least not be forward to
run counter to, or to pass by set aside a decision in
or if it must not be called were not entitled to the were only
name of a decision, an opinion at least given by such
authority by under the special appointment of the law. Greater
impartiality, less respect of persons, more decided
preference of right to favour, more firmness against
undue influence, surely will not be looked for elsewhere:
not in the breast of any Minister, not even
in your Lordship's Board (with respect to it spoken
not even in his Majesty's Cabinet itself. Receiving
this spot of as a proper an unexceptionable one from the hands of the
12 Judges, imagine certified so as such after and notwithstanding the reclamation of the certain
of the inhabitants to the contrary, your Lordships
will act not surely set out in person at least in quest of
another spot, and that without having any particular spot in
view, without any view than that of pitching upon avoiding the
some spot which shall not have has been approved of
by the 12 Judges.⊞ ⊞ As little will your Lordships be disposed to disperse yourselves for such a purpose to pick up what intelligence may be to be collected for such a purpose in your several individual capacities, from this or that friend or dependent at your individual boards or from this or that individual, or from the friend or dependent of this or that individual, whose wishes or apprehensions may interest him in the choice. Still less will your Lordships
think of sending either of your Secretaries on so in are covered
(it is not of the indistinctly person that your Memorialist speaks but
of the species situation) still less will your Lordships think of sending deputies choice
deputing any
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jeremy bentham |
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draft of letter 988, vol. 5 |
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