29 Jan y 1809

Peines 10

Paley 21 — & thus the power of Pardon should be altogether abolished

But here again may be seen another gratuitous

supposition, which lest the confusion should not be yet

thick enough, is added to slipt in along with the rest. This is - that

of by every person by whom this system of dispensing

with the laws nine times out of ten is not approved

of - an opinion that can not but be entertained is -

that no such power as

the power of as he calls of it this severity meaning

doubtless the power of pardon should exist in any any where

hands.

To this proposition for my own part I should suppose this exception

would not be difficult to find: and one at least I

am sure of.

Unfortunately for myself at least the difference in opinion between

the reverend Doctor and myself is in regard to this

point as well as so many others total and irremediable inexorable.

According to him every thing ought to be done He is for having every thing done without reasons; [+]

[+] for let him say what he will so long as I feel or fancy myself in possession of the sort of faculty called a reasoning faculty, I never can admitt under the character of a reason, a pretended reason for which he who calls on me to give admission to it in that character acknowledges himself unable to find words. According to the so far a part as concerns the difference between life and death, whatever is done is said to be done by the Theory, may ought to be within propriety be done without reasons (a) (a) present him the Note

according

to me, nothing: according to him, death and destruction

ought to have plan, death and destruction about without reason: pardon, exempting from death, in

like manner without reason. According to me, death in

no case: with or without reason assigned pardon in every case with reason but in no

case without reason. Pardon in every case, but in every

case on condition of of reason assigned. To me it seemed

and some years before that philosophy of the Reverend Doctors was in print,

that the considerations capable on this occasion of making

a just good title to the character of reasons might all of them

be reduced and is one or other of a determinate number of

general heads: and of general heads so framed, that with a field before

time of such width as - together they allowed him, the head

sufficient guardian of the public security would have no reason to complain of not being sufficiently at his ease. +

+ Give the grounds for pardon in a Note.