Is Justice blind?

Refer Regency Bicentennial:

The first proposal to enclose Finchley Common was made in 1803, at which time a clever wag drew up a proposal which was to be presented to the House of Commons on behalf of the gentlemen of the road, requesting compensation for their supposed losses in the event of enclosure. In his memoirs, the Reverend Sidney Smith recorded the proposal his friend had drawn up: “

- “Whereas, we, your loyal highwaymen of Finchley Common and its neighbourhood, have laid in, at a great expense, a large stock of pistols, blunderbusses, and other instruments of plundering the public — and whereas the division of Finchley Common, sanctioned by your honourable house, will deprive us of all due remuneration for our capital and industry: — we therefore pray that your honourable house will order us such compensation as you shall deem fit. “

Assessing Benjamin Carver

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