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The case is – that unless, in that particular, an opposite
system be pursued, the plan you have in
hand for rendering justice accessible, will remain
doomed, & by the unalterable nature of things, to
be without effect as to the great majority of the
people. Meantime, the French, (I speak on the
fullest information), are reaping prodigious and
universally acknowledged benefit from the accessibility,
correspondent to the smallness of judicial
territories, and consequent multitudes of single-seated
judicatories and judges. But, unless in
sufficient number apt men can be found, who
would be content to receive in the first instance
a small part of what the Police Magistrates receive,
suppose a fourth part, which is four times
as much as hundreds of French Judges serve for
without repining or reproach, the existing evil
must, to the degree just mentioned, remain unremedied.
But, in addition to the profusion to which
they are accustomed, those on whom it depends would
never endure the aggregate expense which would be
the result of any such emolument as £800 a year
given
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