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Novr 1810
Defence

Compare Eldens & Ellenboroughs reproach of ignorance
to that of a thief for ignorance of the language.
Ignorance of that by the knowledge of which the part of him by whom it is regarded with
any other than that of is rendered so much the worse.

Where a grievance in any shape is felt by individuals,
the a course naturally taken is to look out for
some man or set of men as the authors of it, and to
impute it to them as matter of delinquency or at
least reproach. As of law and not only law the absence of law
where law should have been present, were not the work
of men it is upon to more always and never upon to the law
that the blame of whatsoever is suffered is imputed.

Because the monopoly is absurd and mischievous
a conclusion was drawn or appeared to be drawn, that
the King's Officers who profited by it, and the King's Judge
who kept it on foot were in such their several capacities and characters proportionately to blame.
What they very well knew was that there was no such blame
in the case. What they did was bind the sanction of law under and by virtue of
the law, had they done otherwise they would have violated the law.
By what they did the law was conformed to: had they done
otherwise it would have been violated. The time law was produced
and the persons great characters complained against took the attitude of strutted about in
calumniated and injured innocence.

Among the abundant advantages which men of law
derive from that state of darkness and incognoscibility
in which they have been suffered to keep the rule of
action is the difficulty expe which all those who are not
in the secret have to struggle with in their endeavours
to obtain relief from the sufferings in which they are
involved by their the imperfections of it. Right in
substance they are scarce ever right in form. Of the existence
of their those own sufferings they are but too well assured: but upon the
exact point from
what those a mans sufferings
issue to lay a correct
finger is scarce ever
in his power. How
egregiously wrong so ever in
the part of substance, and effect in part if from the man of law has taken care to be in the right: triumph is accordingly the of
the author of the suffering man of craft, which the disappointment of the sufferer was is rendered even better by the reproach of ignorance and temerity which the man of craft
has contrived to add to it.

Identifier: | JB/547/062/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 547.
Date_1	1810-11-??	Marginal Summary Numbering	"1, or 2, or 3"
Box	547	Main Headings
Folio number	062	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
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