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20 Jany 1812
Evidence

Authority, viz. that of two most very respectable Gentlemen
viz. Sir George Paul Baronet one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Gloucester, and the Reverend Mr
Becker one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the
County of Nottingham appears to have been taken
for at the least the principal if not the sole ground of this
Report.

I say authority and not arguments or reasons for
that independently of the weight of authority that by any observation of that tendency any such effect
such as are to be found with either of those names attended
to them any such effect could have been produced, is more
than I am able to conceive. Had I been it been as able to entertain
any such persuasion, most assuredly I no observation such invidious
and uncertain
with any such view as that of shaken lessening the confidence
reposed in that authority would have been undertaken
by me.

But authority so commodious a ground for confidence
is authority, and particularly or in proportion as whether from want of honour or from any other cause
a man feels himself incapable of framing a judgment on
any other ground, and therefore, as especially as matters
should at present be a ground so much relied on in
Parliamentary proceedings that in examining how
far in the present instance this ground promises to form
a safe basis for practical measures it appears to me
that the ground to the examination of which I am thus
reluctantly drawn is at least the very principal ground, if not
the only one, on which a the question so inevitably loaded
with argument is likely to be decided.


Identifier: | JB/118/300/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.

Date_1

1812-01-20

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118

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panopticon

Folio number

300

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evidence

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001

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Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

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recto

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d1 / e1

Penner

jeremy bentham

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Paper Producer

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Notes public

ID Number

39354

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