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Novemb: 1810
Defence or Prizes

to destruction same for endamagement July last
Killing, wounding & taking more might be the subject of reward, if do for taking be greater.
These are rules which may be laid down by one who has no professional knowledge
nothing bu the habit of and applying the general principles of
utility to particular uses, to make application belongs to professionalists

Here then is an objection which applies in the case
where the evidence is incompleat and inconclusive: but as
does most some cases instances, probably in by far the greater
number of instances it will be apt to be.

But if there be any instances in which the evidence
is compleat and conclusive, to these it does not apply
then.

In most cases the exertions by which
capture is aimed at will be conducive to destruction:
and again the exertions by which either capture or
destruction is aimed at will be conducive to endamagement.

If there were no cases in which destruction might
would remain probable feasible, when at the same time that capture was manifestly
impossible, the reward for destruction would might perhaps be unnecessary
and might perhaps be spared. But that cases
of this sort are neither unexampled nor altogether infrequent
is sufficiently notorious.

So again, If there were no cases in which endamagement
would remain feasible, at the same time that destruction
as well as capture was manifestly impossible, reward
for endamagement might in like manner be unnecessary
and might perhaps be spared.

But whether that cases of this sort be not are altogether by
no means without example is a question on which it may altogether manifest. Falling
be left to professional men to pronounce with one of our cruizers a an enemys vessel suffers damage but escapes.
Before she has reached a port, falling in with another of our
cruizers she is captured. The species, degree and value of the damage
she sustained by her
in the first enagement
is are matter of in this case
ascertainable with as
little difficulty at
first in ascertainment
of which no greater difficult will in general be experienced than what is in the those which have place commonly in prize causes.

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Date_1	1810-11-17	Marginal Summary Numbering	8-9
Box	547	Main Headings
Folio number	074	Info in main headings field	Defence or Prizes
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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