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6 Apr. 1802
Dispensing power

When his in 1766, his present Majesty by the advice of his Ministers
of that day took upon him to suspend certain of the
laws of Parliament relative to the subsistence of the
people, there was existed not perhaps the smallest doubt
perhaps in any one human breast about the nature
of the motive in to which that illegal exercise of executive
power owed its rise: and that not only in
the instance of his Majesty who wa who exercised the act by whose authority
the act was exercise, but in the instance of
the Ministers who advised it. It was that sort
of motive the purity and laudability of which
is still more universally recognized than that of
the one just mentioned: it was public spirit, it
was the motive of benevolence, acting upon a scale
of wide extent – a national scale.

Yet even this motive would not have been
sufficient to exempt his Majesty's Ministers from
the charge of criminality – high and punishable criminality
if that sort of criminal consciousness
had been present which indeed in fact was not present
but of which the presence might easily and
clearly enough have been conceived.

The plea urged on their behalf – and on the
ground of which the act of indemnity in their
favour was passed, was – that in doing what
they did, they did neither more nor less than what
in

Identifier: | JB/121/350/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.
Date_1	1802-04-06	Marginal Summary Numbering	Not numbered
Box	121	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	350	Info in main headings field	Dispensing power
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	D2
Penner		Watermarks	1800
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	001
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