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10 April 1809
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Ch. 4. Observations on the Lord Chief Baron's Defences.
§. 1. Defence 1st. Avoidance of Vexation.

In this same letter, a few Other points not belonging immediately to having any direct bearing on the subject of this
essay, can receive no other than a slight and hasty touch.

Two advantages are brought to view as forming between them a preponderant and sufficient reason for substituting to that everchanging population.

1. "Complaints in Court, by gentlemen .... brought 15 miles from
"their homes": – Men of opulence, paid for being gentlemen,
paid for coming to town, they a place to which they would are continually coming, if not paid they would
(pleasure included) about their own business not have been grudged coming to see an Opera or visit somebody
when at home, paid for coming 15 miles – the
utmost extent of this small county smallest of small counties, where which
common Jurymen, who receive no pay, are in so many
other Counties brought thirty or forty or fifty miles to a place
which they others would never have seen otherwise unless thus forced
they would never have set foot in.

Had the objection the weight which for the purpose of the
argument is here attempted to be given to it, what would be
the result? either that in the country the Jury system ought to be abolished
altogether, or that the use of it ought to be much narrowed,
or that the district system of division of the country districts into which the for
the purpose of Jury trial the country has been parcelled out, ought
to go undergo a total change. Not that there is in all this nothing I do not mean to say that in
that could as to the above points there is nothing in which any change
could be made with advantage. Not that in all this there
is no room for improvement anywhere: but that it may
s specimen may be afforded seen of the blindness which is so natural
an accompaniment of the hydrophobia of innovation.
Oh what a charming thing it is to be in a gentleman. Of on the bed or roses you repose on, there be but a single leaf that
has a pucker in it, how tender the sympathy excited in
reverend and learned breasts!

Identifier: | JB/118/396/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1812-09-13	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	396	Info in main headings field	to ld sidmouth
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a14***
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public	draft of enclosure to letter 2190, vol. 8	ID Number	39450
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