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By the law of England, if a man you  committs 
an outrage against your a man's person, but restraining 
 himself  yourself however within some bounds and spares your so as to spare his
 life, you he<add>the</add> may obtain a pecuniary amends 
at the a price which will be mentioned taken notice of by and 
by, if the lottery of the law litigation should be in
 your favour . his favour. But if he will But to stop there would be bad management: you should go on without
 flinching: and continue his ill usage,
 be rewarded with impunity you should pursue to your <add>him to his  grave: and then 
law rewards you </add> 
the law rewards him you with impunity. If thus
 takes your purse into its protection you have an opportunity of making your
 fortune  
If then you have any purpose of revenge
 or avarice to answer by enforcing keeping
 a man in confinement, do so: but let the
 place be unhealthy, and keep him there
 to his death. + + Choose rather an old man a than a young one, a sickly man than a healthy, a person the tender sex rather than the robust. Should the life of a man stand in the way of your fortune avarice or your vengeance this dose of poison or of torment operates too quick In short if you have an opportunity
 of any kind in any way of making your fortune
 by the murdering a man, the law allows you
 so to do; only let his death be slow. Should 
you be too precipitate, matters be precipitated your neck may chance to pay
 it comes to  quick, at the worst his family 
is ruined, [your own family is provided for] for it: even then you may comfort yourself with the
 having ruined your enriched, his family and enriched, 
your own.
 
(a) Gadgson's case
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