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1/ 1826 July 9
London Petition for Judicial Reform and against Lord Eldon

When remuneration for
official service is so
managed and applied
that the quantity of
it receives encrease
as the misery of the
people receives encrease
what well grounded
confidence respect
can men have feel for the
government by which
such a state of things
is has been organized created and
is preserved?

When private interest
is thus placed in a state
of an unrelenting hostility
to public duty
and the subvention of
of the people wrung from
them by taxes under
the name of fees, is employed
by their rulers
in suborning in subordination of one another
to the by in securing
their concurrence in
acts which differ in
nothing but by their magnitude and in impunity
from the most flagrant
crimes
by which human suffering
is produced upon the
largest scale.

Instead of being respected
respect and confidence
in government their conduct
by itself becomes in the
eyes of all men in
whose thought is inserted
to feeling an at one object of contempt
and terror abhorrence
of contempt for the sordidness meanness
of the rapacity indicated by it
of terror from the contemplation
of the misery to which
we have been by it
and of indignation at
the thought of the
by with which such
injuries have been heaped
upon us.

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We know of no man
We know not with
what better intention
When the matter of reward can
be attached to acts
by which human suffering
is produced that that
reward rising in magnitude
in proportion to
the intensity and extent
of that same suffering
we know not what
design can be ascribed
to the authors other or
better than that of giving
encrease to the suffering
for the purpose of giving
correspondent encrease
to the profit so extracted
from it.

We have looked over
the list of those acts to
which under the name
of crimes the heaviest
punishments are attached
and among them
we see not one by which
human misery is produced
in quantity approaching
though at ever so
great a distance to that
which in the face of
the country and the world
has so recently been
ordained to be produced
by a Parliament which will
thereby be held in everlasting remembrance.

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We remember some
of us and we know
from history all of
us how the inhabitants
of In the number
of so reached by
millions was English
men were done to expose
themselves for their
fellow subjects and to
throw off the yoke of
monarchy by the
exercise given to the
principle which
divided the inhabitants
of a into two
classes by one of which
that of the other should be
tied to any amount
at pleasure without
the consent of any one
of them.

In that case how
reasonable so ever was
the prehension, the unreasonableness
had this
for the alleviation of it
namely that of the
many thus to be estranged
from the million other
millions in still greater
number were to have
stood away than the
benefit.

In the case which
is the subject of this
one complaint how
much more flagrant
is the unreasonableness
and abusiveness of
the principle.
From

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To From persons or sets of
persons in no one of
the sets the persons were
then four in number
are authority is put
for imposing in all for their
own benefit in all
persons without exception
under the name
of fees taxes without
stint.

A power by the giving of which
if given to the to the King
would suffice to pr set
forth an universal

is he then by Lords
and Commons to pen to
half a dozen lawyers.

We denounce
John Earl of Eldon
Lord High Chancellor
of Great Britain as
the notorious author of this
conspiracy against
whatsoever is most
valuable in the Constitution (or force
of Government is called)
and among the twelve
Judges so called will
be two other Judges
respectively called Vice
Chancellor and Master
of the Rolls, as his
manifest accomplices
the several Judges
to whom this
Source of unlimited
depredation and correspondent
denial
of Justice has by
has been their manifest procurement
been enforced.

Identifier: | JB/081/001/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
Date_1	1826-07-09	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	001	Info in main headings field	london petition for judicial reform and against lord eldon
Image	002	Titles
Category	rudiments sheet (brouillon)	Number of Pages	2
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	25788
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