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2 Dec r 1807 Scotch Reform
2 Dec r 1807

Scotch Reform

(6)[?]

Represent Jury trial as [...?] without this Injury.

Letter V

Ch. Omission causes

Promoting Perjury

viz. among Jurymen

Another object - and an object which though at first view of a somwehat refined nature - is too important to be neglected by us - is the encouragment to be given to the profession, by bringing the minds and morals of the people into a state the most favourable possible to the encrease of business. I speak of the use there will be in spreading the habit of perjury as much as possible among the middling classes of the people - among those classes from which Jurymen will be to be selected.

In an English trial, as often as any real difference of opinion has place among the Jurymen, the difference is terminated by a pact of perjuries.
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