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End of Punishment

The pain of sympathy arising out of the offence and
the pain of sympathy pleasure of the irascible appetite grounded in originating in that pain of sympathy arising out of the punishment,
are [circumstances things] equally accidental: depending not on any
measure taken at best in that particular instance by the Legislator, but on the character and
disposition of the People. Both depend upon the disposition
of the People at large to take an interest in what concerns
the public: and are perhaps nowhere (seen) so
strong and universal as in England Great Britain.

☞ From Dr Shibbeare's offences there probably was
no actual pain except the pain of sympathy for the
public. If This pain however was doubtless felt by
multitudes in a great degree upon the appearance of an
offence: and a sympathetic pleasure of the irascible appetite was
in a considerable degree was felt by multitudes at the
infliction of the Punishments.

From the offence of a smuggler who defrauds the
revenue system of £50 it is scarce possible but actual pain must come
to be suffered somewhere: for the £ deficiency of £50
which the offence caused produced in the public treasury must
be supplied at the expense of a number of people somebody
to whom it will be a pain to part with it. That
by the offence of a smuggler scarce any pain of
sympathy is produced except among [the a very] few
statesmen who have [concerned in the superintendence of
the Revenue.] On the other hand scarce any sympathetic pleasure
of the vind irascible appetite is felt except by the same
persons at the infliction of the punishment.

Identifier: | JB/159/107/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	107	Info in main headings field	ends of punishment
Image	002	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	53930
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