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1828 July 14
Letter IV. to Herald on Rape-licence &c

The legislators in question are the four and Directors
of the Honorable the East India Company with the Right Honorable the President of the Board of Controul over them.
How great so ever the variety allowed by the
To whatsoever variety may be allowed by the abovementioned or any other
fornication licence a rape licence it is evident judicious and
aptly discriminating rape licence could not fail, it was and
is evident to the Right Honorable Gentleman to rail to make considerable addition: for as
the number of the willing are supplied by the fornication licence: to those
the rape licence adds the unwilling, in such due number
and proportion, as the framers of the licence shall in their
wisdom have appointed. Looking for wisdom I at
once upon the Right Honorable President: or to save words
upon Mr Wynan: for us, to whatsoever on any occasion
the Board of Directors propose he is by law to
substitute whatever he pleases, and the Board in such case
and in this case in particular no more than in roundabout
name for the President circumlocution will by this means
be served and no injustice done.

Here then Sir, in the form of the Rape licence granted
by Mr Wynan, I have said, Sir it has its limits.
In the first place it extends not to the : so that so
long as the stay in it your fair readers need not be afraid.
In fact it extends not beyond a portion of the ,
of inhabitants of British Indians.
The law in question is that contained in exhibited to the Regulations of 1819
printed by Order of the House of Commons: date of the order
June 1828. In this case The restriction is somewhat differently placed.
The licence In one sense way the licence is more liberal: it is
granted to all, who of themselves or of such assistants as they
can procure, are strong enough: but the description of the female
subjected to the obligation of making the contestation
to the of the other sex – to this it is that the restrictions
apply. They The persons thus subjected are all those who in addition to the natural and supposed though not only supposed avoidable expence of prosecution
are unable to pay the factitious expences imposed under the name of
fees according to a list of which the beginning is in the Regulations
but the termination no where.

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Date_1	1828-07-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	549	Main Headings
Folio number	124	Info in main headings field	[[info_in_main_headings_field::Letter VI [?] to Herald on Rape Licences]]
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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