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Long and Forgery

27 May 1802

what it would an equal degree be the result of a
pardon from the Crown: of one of those pardons of which negations upon the
execution of the law, the grounds of which the grounds are not altogether so publicly known as it
the grounds are not altogether so publicly known as it
were to be wished they were. Mr Baldwin would have
it in his power to explain this matter to Your Lordship
by some familiar instances.

In Mr Long's case, the public part of the mischief
of the offence consisted in the defeat of a great National
Establishment that had been ordained by Parliament:
in the too fortunate effectual pursuit of that criminal end object which
were the object of the whole system of mal-practices of
which the offence constituted so essential a part.

The course of proceeding to which it was the object of Mr Long's
offence to give an improper a wrong conclusion, was not
(it may be observed) a judicial one. It certainly was
not the proceeding of a Court. The Board of which
it was the proceeding is certainly not of the number of
those authorities which in common parlance are
understood to come under the denomination of Courts of
justice. It is not an authority that according to such
precedent experience as I have had if it has appeared
to consider itself bound by either the form
or the spirit of positive—natural—of any thing that
ever went by the name of justice. But in respect
of its actual powers if it were in any respect different
from a Court of Justice, it is by their being beyond
comparison more ample—more unlimited—more
effective. It is a Court tribunal of summary judicature in
theory of everlastingly procrastinatory jurisdiction in practice
in

Identifier: | JB/120/095/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 120.
Date_1	1802-05-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	120	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	095	Info in main headings field	long and forgery
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2 / f7
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	39921
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