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10 Novr 1810
Defence

As to the terms of the Act, they are such as it may be seen
by any body admitt of no exceptions: and if not full enough
Of the terms of the Act it may be seen by any body
plain is the object of view they ought for the first to have been
that they admitt of no exceptions all prizes which they made commensurate to it.
shall take But to defend or break through the terms of the any plainest law
is has ever been matter of sport and triumph to English Lawyers.

As to the mass of distinct complication by which
the distinction in question has been pretended to be delineated marked out,
it is such nothing but short of the original can be its
own lone picture, volumes might be employed in the
delineation of it, and the greater the number of the volumes
the thicker would the darkness be upon the face of this drop.
Any one For any one who can command in an
as a sketch of it, though coarse enough is given in the book of Dr Arthur Browne.

The King is divided into himself and his own Lord
High Admiral. If after day on which of capture clouds in the sky were the prize is taken are of the fleecy form is
a fair day it goes the whole of it to the King in his quality of King: but thence
or all of it to the captors in obedience to the Act. If the
the a rainy day it clouds are in the non-fleecy form
it goes two thirds of it only to the King as King, that is to the captors
it goes to the King the other third to the King in his quality of Lord High Admiral:
that is to the corruption-fund: or else vice versâ: for, it
is equally difficult and
to say which, would be able
to any such purpose as the present alike difficult and useless.

These are not exactly the distinctions specified,
but with the interest either of the people or of the country at large or those
of its maritime defenders, the connection they have
is in both cases equally close, but as to any thing which
the one has to do with the interest either of the country
at large or with that of its those defenders, the substitution
of the other would not be matter of indifference, or if not
rather, as might perhaps be shewn, of advantage.


Identifier: | JB/547/058/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 547.

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1810-11-10

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19-21

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547

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058

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Defence

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001

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Jeremy Bentham

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Jeremy Bentham

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