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5 1826 July 9
London Petition for Judicial Reform and against Eldon

We have one at are
to ensure that
depredation
are the
many other cases if not
in these

We are unable to answer
how depredation is capable
of being produced, is
of being committed if it
has not in this

Attorneys blamed for the
faults of Judges.

Under a form of government
such as that under which
we have to live and
we gave up as
impracticable any such
measure as that of bringing
to condign punishment
those malefactors
to whom to the amount of so
many thousand a year more
has been regularly obtained
by a mixture
of false pretence and fraud and approp
extraction oppression of false pretence
and extortion.

We consent to the landing
them in the possession of
of their ill gotten gains, with
that infamy which in prop at the
hands of those in whom injustice
is an object of regard
will cling to their
names as long as they
are held in remembrance.

We cannot in the purchasing
at their own price
the surrender of their
of lawless , as we
would consent to the reasons
of a booty [] [] taken by a party of or Hindustanian , that the of manifest in those was : but no less
that a total disregard for justice, and a full and free consent to the oppression and depredation under the mark of justice will not be expected to be added in the number.

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We pray, that because
it be for other official
service money be no
longer received in the
false pretence of judicial service.

☞ So go on with the suits
in which interest is set in
opposition to duty

We regard as a virtual
practical confession of guilt,
and as conclusive
proof of consciousness
of guilt the act by
which the Lord Chancellor
committed the
function charge of ju pronouncing
judgment on
his own conduct
to Judges of his own
choice. We regard
those creations,
instruments and associates
of his by
whom such a choice
was accepted, as accomplices
of the delinquent, and accessories
after the fact
to all his enormities.

We regard as among one
of the most honourable
testimonies Your Honourable
House ever
received the unwillingness
on his part to abide
the scrutiny of Your
Honourable and the desperate
determination to
have received such impunity and oblivion and impunity in so
scandalous a measure[+]

[+] Regarding this measure
as a testimony
the sincerity of
which cannot be doubted is not exposed to doubt
if in favour of the probity of
of your Honourable House
was not we say with
greatest regard the acquiescence
of the House is
that measure or a
proof that but too
conclusive that the
an opinion so favourable and honourably of being justified by the fact of finding in the truth of the case a justification.

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We pray that there
be of with the money
has been produced may
be content at least with
what the law produced.

Self judicature
We wish to
be merited abhorence
and its supporters
be merited scorn and
indignation the self-judging
principle:
the principle by which
a man is comfortable
judge in his own
cases.

We declare that in
proportion as that principle as under any form of government
is adopted and
, that
government is rendered
unfit is rendered
hostile instead of subservient
to its pretended
end, if so it be
that those same ends
are justifiable ones.

We deny that it is in
the power of of force to
convert injustice into
Justice.

We declare that
no man who had any
regard for justice ever
had did regard or
ever could have regarded
such a principle as
subservient to or compatible
with justice.

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Points to be discussed

1. Sittings
2. Judges single
3. Parties opposing examined at
the Outset in the presence
of each other and the
Judge: special reason
to the contrary excepted
4. Evidence
except for proposed end
delay vexation and expence
5. Evidence in every case
delivered in the most truest
existing shape: except
as above
6. Evidence for saving of
delay vexation and
expence elicitable at
a distance: but under
liability to subsequent
oral examination.
7. Exceptions
proceedings due to execution
before a the same single
Judge without a Jury
Subject in every instance
to before a
Jury.
8. Jury the number
reduced from twelve
to an odd number
3 or 5.
☞ Go on

Eldons Commissioners

We beg leave to assure
Your Honourable House
that the opinions pronounced
and the suggestion
adopted by the Judicature
in question were exactly
what we should have
expected from the
and the composition of it

Identifier: | JB/081/003/002"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	003	Info in main headings field	london petition for judicial reform and against eldon
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