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11 Aug. 1808
To Mallet
(4) V. Irresponsibility
Reforming Statute

4
Sole means of prevention
thought of —
transference of the
power from the
invisible Commissioners
to visible Judges

Thereupon comes the reforming law: whereby a
matter of such delicacy as the [admission dispersing of facts making
dispersed] of public money by the admission of facts
without proof was taken from a set of gentlemen
who sitting under the name of a Board formed in the
habits attached to that denomination all possible facility
towards the lending a safe ear to the suggestions
of private convenience, to a set of learned persons who
sitting under the name of a Bench, did not find in
the habits attached to that denomination any such facilities,
or at any rate in any thing like an equal degree.

5
This supposed fact
of undue favour
is merely inferred
from the Statute,
as if from one
of Edward 3d, not
from direct evidence.

This Such in my view of the matter is the true history
of the Stat that Law. But lest by my meaning should be misconceived,
permitt me, Sir, to protest declare once more, and in direct terms, that
for the supposed fact I have no evidence whatsoever
other than what that that which is composed of the practice of
the Board in the respect in question, coupled with the existing
law. To the possession of any I
make, have no more pretension than Judge In the laws statutes of
Edward the third may occasionally be read, the facts on which
gave occasion to those laws those statutes found their causes: if in this statute of
George the third I read the facts which gave occasion to
it, it is without any more assistance from anecdote or
rumour than if had been a law of Edward
the third.

Identifier: | JB/122/274/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122.
Date_1	1808-08-11	Marginal Summary Numbering	4-5
Box	122	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	274	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	C4
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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