JB_047_156.xml

Title: [Evidence 23 July 1805 Perversion]

Description: Evidence

23 July 1805

Perversion

Between the fabrication /sort of forgery/ attempted behind the custom, and the fabrication practiced upon the bench, there is again yet another difference. The source of profit is different in the two cases. In the case of the malefactor, recognised as such, the profit reaped by the secret, if any be reaped, is reaped from the individual false will in question, from the individual act by which that false will is /was/ /has been/ made. In the case of the Judge, and his practises in the iniquity, the source of profit is not confined to any one false will in particular, but the stream flows alike from all the suits in which with whatever success, at the instance of a false document, the making of any such false will is attempted to be procured.

Not that of itself /Of itself however/ this source of profit is not productive enough, to satiate /satisfy/ the rapacity of the man of law. In another place this has been shown to belong to the number of cases in which he has contrived to provide for himself two opposite fountains of decision, so circumstanced /situated/ that from which of them he will draw his decision, /on each given occasion/ his response of the suits will be drawn, shall, previously to litigation /[...?], that is to/ appear sufficiently and uncognisable. In the present case to fan the fountain of technical perversion as above delineated, he has contrived to keep up in a state fit for playing /of/ /constant readiness/, the fountain of real intention. To draw from the one or from the other source is equally open to the revered Juggler's choice. In addition to the profit (of which nothing is ever said, by any body,) praise, whichsoever of the two sources it shall please him to draw from, is equally secure. At the different fountains altered two different virtues, eager /in readiness/ to crown their receptive customers /votaries/: at the fountain of trial intention, Liberality: at the fountain of Technical Perversion, Constancy: Constancy whose motto is stare decisis: Constancy the [...?] handmaid of jurisprudential Science.

JB_139_426.xml

Title: [1818 Feb. 9 Not Paul I Argument]

Description: 1818 Feb. 9

Not Paul

I Argument

Ch Motives to Conversion

§ Money &c received

§ Services &c received

14 Hebrews

Moved by the observation of a degree of what had the discourse been written nowadays would have been deemed inconclusiveness, inappositeness /irrelevancy/, extravagance and absurdity so much beneath any thing that would be picked /culled[?]/ out of the whole mass of the matter written by the most /whole number/ incapable writers that could be found among those of this country and this age, some persons a have found in this circumstance a reason and that a conclusive one for denying with relation to Paul the authenticity of this Epistle. But admitting the fact, whether by /in/ any such circumstance the inference could find any considerable support, may be the better judged of when that part of this enquiry is on the carpet which has for its subject the self-asserted Apostle’s style.

a […?]

In every other of the discourses /compositions/ which in their tenor present themselves as having him for their author little circumstances of a personal nature present themselves such as it could hardly have entered into the conception of a forgerer - especially a forgerer of that comparatively inexperienced age to insert. In the whole tenor of this long Epistle not one such characteristic circumstance is to be /has been/ found.

Note

The whole argument of which Melchisedec furnishes the subject /principle[?]/: and the history of the exploits[?] of faith may be set down as masterpieces among the productions of that art for which it may be left to the reader to find a name. Of the whole number of Chapters viz 13 these two arguments occupy between them occupy four.

Heb. v. vi. vii. xi.

JB_003_317a.xml

Title: [nd [wm 1798] D + To the Bank]

Description: nd [wm 1798]

D +

To the Bank

§ III. Application Principles

4 Verbal Description

Portraits

13*[?]

§.{3} /4/. Of Forgery in the way of Fabrication – Application of the Principles.

[Folio 003-317b was formerly pinned here]

{ 4. The fourth of the {difficulty above mentioned} circumstances above-mentioned

as capable of being made to enter into the composition of the instrument in

question (a Bank note) and therein of affording the means of throwing

obstruction in the way of an enterprize of forgery is the being capable of being

marked out to a degree of precision adequate to the purpose of prohibition and

punishment, by a purely verbal description, conceived in general terms without

the necessity of a reference to any individual object, to be referred to as the

object, the imitation of which is forbidden.

On this head it must farther be observed, that the act which the verbal

description is for the present purpose employd to characterize, must be such an

act as, with, or rather if possible even without, the warning given by the law

it will be morally impossible that a man should engage in the exercise of, with

any other intention than the very identical criminal intention marked out by the

law for prohibition and punishment. }

To apply this to the case of a Bank Note, framed and worded as at present –

The indication that would be afforded by a plate, fabricated in imitation of a

Bank Note of the present form, answers this purpose as far as it goes, as

effectually as can be wished. Nothing but the very words employd in a genuine

Note could afford the Forgerer any the smallest hope of succeeding in the

fabrication of a spurious one: and supposing a plate with these words upon it to

be found in the possession of any uncommissioned individual, no evidence could

be more perfectly conclusive of the existence of the criminal intention in

question on the part of the individual at least by whom the plate was made to

exhibit

those