1821. April 17.

First Lines.

Penal Law

To the word punishment, lawyercraft, in confederacy with religious fraud - /and/ religious hypocrisy - in confederacy with, and in subserviency to, monarchical tyranny, has, of late years. applied /furnished/ a synone/y/m - viz visitation - penal visitation -

In the language of the English translation of the Bible, visitation is employed as synonymous to punishment Synonymous? But in what case? - where the misdoer being a man, the ruler is the invisible almighty. Considered in this point of view, sin is the name employed or the designation of the misdeed.

By the word visitation, substituted by Lawyer's Rhetorick, to the word punishment, the following ae the notions insinuated, the intimations conveyed.

Of the Almighty invisible, whose throne is in heaven, the Monarch is the visible representative here on earth: the representative, according to the certificate given to him by Blackstone, invested with no small part - with as large a part as is necessary for the accomplishment of the indisputable object of his government - the greatest happiness of him in comparison of whom all others are but as creatures to their creator - invested, in a word, with a compleatly sufficient /adequate/ part of his divine constituent's attributes. By the alledged offender, a misdeed has been committed. By this misdeed, the Monarch has been offended. The Monarch, being God upon earth - God with us - the offence is a sin. Sins deserve to be visited. For this his sin, this sinner deserves to be visited. At the charge of him by whom sin has ben committed, punishment is due. Proportioned to the dignity of the offended ruler, should be the magnitude of the

punishment