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Long and Forgery
27 May 1802
Would your Lordship it be agreable to your Lordship
to give a little more praise to your conception
of the offence a little more precision than what can
be given to it by a bare name?—Lord Ellenborough
will assist you.
On the 26th of May last 1802 four men were sentenced
each to a six months imprisonment for attempting
(I know not with whether successfully or no but let the
affirmative be supposed admitted) to prevent the testimony of a man
from making its appearance against a defendant on an
indictment for bad money. Compare this offence
with Mr Long's.
In this case the testimony suppressed was viva voce
testimony: in Mr Long's case written. In this respect
I see no difference on either side worth mentioning.
These men were a Publican and three private
Soldiers: men of low degree and not in office. Mr Long
was in high office: it was to his office alone that he
was beholden for the faculty of committing the crime: an
aggravation—and a very high one surely.
In their case, the mischief of the crime was purely
of a private nature: to no individual assignable individual
any additional and special mischief.
Even in respect of this public crime mischief, the crime in this case was
not attended with any specific and distinct effect. The
offence which it tended to render more frequent, by exempting
a criminal from punishment was no more than a drop in
the ocean of similar delinquency with which the country has been
inundated time out of mind: the effects of it, were no other than
what
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