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2 April 1810
Sinecures

As to the composition of the judicatory, though certainly
not an immaterial it is but a subordinate consideration.
The more effectual points are: publicity of the evidence
and liberty of contestation: Under these conditions these points secured the
appeal is to the public at large, and that public put into
a condition to pronounce in correct and compleat grounds
and with the benefit of such an appellate judicatory the
immediate judicatory may be in any degree corrupt corrupt in any proportion, and
still the controul by no means an inefficient one.

Take the case of the Walcheren Walcherenites Cabinet – had
the judicatories utility of the trial depended upon the chance probability
of a just decision time could not have been more
egregiously wasted: it is that sort of war sort assembly judicatory which
how necessary so ever in another character, would never in its
quality of judicatory had in the course of its whole life
more than one moment of virtue, and that was when it
recognized its own unfitness for that function, and even then no: not even
that one moment: is too much: for it was not in its judicial character
that it made this acknowledgement, but in its legislative:
and the difference is not a verbal quibble: for when in its
legislative capacity it made this glorious sacrifice the curtain was let fall, individual
objects were out of sight: whereas while acting in its judicatory character
individual objects with all the causes of seduction with which they are encompassed
they were always present: and thus it is that makes the
difference: and in that difference was in regard to practice consists the
difference as to moral aptitude.

But even though conducted before that judicature that trial had it and for the reason for the cause abovementioned
had its use.

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Date_1	1810-04-02	Marginal Summary Numbering	Not numbered
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	161	Info in main headings field	Sinecures &c
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49386
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