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6 Aug. 1808 25
To Mallet
25

36. — 19
The individuals
being so compleatly
unknown, J.B.
had on this occasion
nothing to judge
from but the general
principles of
human nature.

All reasoning founded on the character of the individuals
in question, and on the eventual danger to that
character in case of visible misconduct being out of
the question in forming an estimate of my chance
for justice I had formed no other source of instruction
to look to, then the general present nature of their
situation, as above described, and the general principles
of human nature, as indicated by the practice if maintained,
so far as it had fallen under my own observation
in similar situations.

37 — 20
By that criterion,
the under the circumstance
of the
case the chance
of justice depended
upon the
disposition of the
Board towards the
Officer complained
of: viz. whether
favourable or unfavourable.

Judging from that criterion, those criterions it appeared to me
that in the present instance the point on which
the reception that would be which any such complaint
now could look for turned was — not whether the
complaint were or was not just well-founded not whether in the several
points in question the conduct of the officer in question
had or had not been contrary to the duty of his office,
but upon what terms in the individual instances in
question, the Officer in question, in his character of Defendant in question happened to be
with his proposed Judges.

Turning to the Letter in question, was the letter
of the 2d of June, this point I observed already ascertained.

In that letter of mine to which this was an answer, hastily as
it was written, I had already, to in my own conception
howsoever unfounded, suggested submitted such suggestions
as entitled me to expect an answer not quite altogether
so peremptory and indiscriminate undiscriminating

Identifier: | JB/122/259/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122.
Date_1	1808-08-06	Marginal Summary Numbering	36 or 19 - 37 or 20
Box	122	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	259	Info in main headings field
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	D25 / E25
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	See note 5 to letter 1986, vol. 7	ID Number	001
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