JB/118/449/002

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4 May 1809

The reason presents On its surface the argument reason
presents a colour of utility: open less talk of the surface and then see
what becomes of it.

trades subject to Revenue laws, and thence
liable to afford business to this part of the Court of Exchequer
say for argument sake, twenty: though many more would probably
be found.

The Mischiefs Inconveniences of the packing system or Residing Jury board or as above, two
opposite ones: 1. On the one side over-obsequiousness, subjection of the Jury
to the Judge in whose power they are their sole use consists
in their serving as a check: on the other side, exposure to
corruption, in the part of delinquents in the situation of defendants.

Alledged Good effects of the same system, only appropriate instruction
in relation to the business of the several trades
in so far in so far as by to enable the Jury to form a correct judgement in the as the instruments and operations respectively belonging
to them question whether this or that law has been by the defendant
transgressed in the course of his operations and in respect
of such or such articles of his stock, been transgressed, it
may be necessary that the nature of such operations or
of such parts of his stock should at the trial and in
the sight and hearing of the Jury be explained.

But in this argument is assumed that in the
course of of one trial and for the purpose of that trial in the instance
of those several trades or at least in the instance of some
considerable part of the whole number of them a sufficient conception
of the nature of such stock and of such operations
can not be in the space of time allotted to one trial be
communicated in one part communicated, on the other
part received and imbibed with a degree of accuracy
sufficient for good judicature.

Identifier: | JB/118/449/002 "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	449	Info in main headings field	to ld sidmouth
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b15 b3 e3 e15
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public	draft; not included in letter 2190, vol. 8	ID Number	39503
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