despatch what I hat
abready admitted in mine. my objection, as I think,
You ought to have seen,
has not to the mere
lxistence
of
the power
but to the unlimited
Herms
in which it is
"conferred. I am quite
aware that prompt and real punishments
necessary for
keeping
in order ench
a population as zou
describe. But it is
also
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also evident that a
European hragistrate who
is at liberty to order
flogging in any
case
Recond conviction for
&
mis demeanour is under
the temptation to inflict that punishment, and
will probably be supposed
inconsideratel
to
inflict it, or may July Off hand may,
and
that this temptation
increased by
Circumstaxus
the
very
difficulties which render the infliction of these thank
punishments