[lxxxiv. 121]

1822 Jany 24

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But a chance there is, nor that an inconsiderable one, that to sentences /a sentence/ pronounced by a Judge without a Jury, no Sheriff no Jailor, no Sheriff's Officer no Hangman will be found that when goods that used to be exposed to sale in execution of verdicts found by packed Juries are exposed to sale under judgments given without Juries no purchasers will be found, that those of the same which now so easily and copiously find their way into the grand reservoir of corruption the current would be stopped

That, in the judgment /eyes/ /conception/ /expectation/ of /by/ those to whom the scourge of torture is an instrument of delight /applied to the backs of the injured/, no hand would /shew itself/ in England be found /as being ready/ to apply it is certain: for as yet it has not been among the imports from Ireland into England.

To the Assembly to which the old man's rupture /was made to/ afforded a good joke afforded /was the cause of/ so much merriment because ruptured and reward[?] begin with the same letter, the importation of the Irish instrument of torture would have matter of serious delight, and to all appearances would beyond doubt have long ago been effected, but for the doubt whether in an /any/ English hand it could be made to do its offices