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1827 March 2
J.B. to Peel Letter on Juries
This considered On this account there must be something very in no small degree extraordinary
in that man, who filling or having filled the situation
of Judge in the grade as high as that of the Judges
should have any real desire to see Codification as contradistinguished
from mere consolidation have place.
Lord Camden was universally regarded as being in
his time the individual Judge who was least swayed by that
particular and sinister interest of Judge which can not operate
but to the detriment and sacrifice of the interest of the subject
many in their capacity of suitor: he gave Lord Mansfield
being in the opposite extreme. I have lived for weeks together
in the society of Lord Camden, and never observed any was
able to observe any the least symptom of a desperate or tendency
to make any the smallest sacrifice of that sole legitimate sinister interest.
Well do I remember his stoppage of the very first
step in the career in which you are treading. By a few rising
young men a Bill for abrogating a few antiquated Statutes
which except in the character of lumber could do neither good
nor harm was not of stopped in the House of Lords. At that time My surprize
was not inferior to my mortification and I had not at that
time made any such advance in my study of the human
character as to see that nothing better could reasonably
be expected of human nature in the situation of an English
Judge. The times I believe Sir are anterior to that which
gave you birth. ☞ Add about Peel's "calumny".
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