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The council, gentlemen, has its own method of
inquiring into the cases which you assign to it and the crimes committed within
its own body. Unlike yourselves,—and you need not take offence at
this,—who are sometimes apt when judging to give more weight to mercy
than to justice, it simply reports anyone who is liable to the charges in
question or has broken any traditional rule of conduct believing that if a
person is in the habit of committing small offences he will more easily involve
himself in serious crimes.
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