Excerpt from Hone's Interesting History of the Memorable Blood Conspiracy A right Reverend Prelate once informed the good people of this country, that they had nothing to do with the laws but.to obey them; and many genteel persons are so favourable to the doctrine, that they are scandalised at every expression of honest indignation excited by some notable proof of their impolicy, partiality, or in. Justice. The indulgence claimed for the laws, too, must be ex tended to their administrators; and we are gravely called upon, not only to make the usual allowances for human infirmity, but abso Iutely to forego that vigilance and exposure Of abuses, without which laws would soon become the mere discretion of the magistracy. Now; with all due respect to the powers that be, it may be con tended that almost every improvement, both in theory and practice, has originated in this country from extra-official interference and that public opinion, freely but decently expressed, is as essen tial to the regulation of the magistrate as the criminal. All the world knows what implicit confidence engenders in this respect, and how round and voluble the exclamation of Ali's well is xc echoed from one worshipful quarter to another, until humane and public-spirited individuals penetrate into the painted sepulchre, and draw forth the rottenness and bones. Away, then, with this trust and this apathy, which cannot be afforded to any body of men. If an administrator of criminal law be seen presiding over a case of life and death with the Spirit of a rat-catcher, acting as counsel, nay as a friend, to the prosecutors; and if, disregarding the light and shade of circumstance, a human being should be hurried out of the world whose guilt is more than doubtful, let not respectable persons stifle their genuine feelings, and exclaim It is a sad thing, to be sure; but the individual is hanged now, and if we meddle it will only unsettle the minds of the lower orders. Lower orders -it would be difficult to discover an order lower than that which contains minds to whom such abuses are indii ferent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.