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Analogy.

manner.

In this view were a penal Code to be the text of
the law in this behalf in any penal Code, might
be concerned in some such terms as the following.

Whose with a malicious intent shall lay be a means of the mens laying any part of the
country under water, whereby the life of any person
is destroy'd, shall suffer death in manner following thus be put to death, in torture:
He shall be drenched with water till he burst.

The place for describing the particular mode of applying the water, will
be the title Execution, which will compose a branch
of the Sheriff's Law, to this it will be sufficient
under the present title to refer.

The expression malicious intent I am conscious
is not explicit enough of itself. I suppose it a introduce it here
I upon supposition of its being already d expounded
one for all in an introductory part of the Code.

Many I fear will be disposed to censure me
for entertaining a so much as the most distant
thoughts of introducing so horrible a punishment.
By way of apology I shall not go about to
exaggerate by declamation the mischievousness of
the crime, much less what is called the malice of him who should
endeavour to committ it. My constant plea is
not to set passion against passion, but to reduce
both if possible under the Law of reason. I should
not think of proposing such a punishment were
I not satisfied of it's being more than probable that with any tolerable care on
the part of the Government to make it known,
such a punishment would never come to be actually
inflicted.

Identifier: | JB/159/124/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	124	Info in main headings field	analogy
Image	003	Titles	instrument the same - water
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	53947
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