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In the year 1811, the moralisti Board, in obedience to an Imperial edict, drew up the following Memorial on the law of torture:
In the trial of a case, if the presiding Magistrate is able to arrive at a fair and unbiassed decision without the use of torture, he does not presume to have recourse to it: but if a hundred difficulties arise, if a prisoner prove obdurate and wasive, persist in holding ...