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1821 Jany 24
J.B. to Arguelles
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In the Earl in question as in any other the rule of
action was destined to take that form whatever of his that
should best suit the purpose prospects of those of whose will it
were to be the expression. If a was to be
having him was to put an exclusion upon the
appearance of a witness whose testimony was necessary to
conviction to the proof of delinquency act of of : another
means was to put an exclusion upon this or that
question by his own which was of such a nature
that if guilty, in case of delinquency by his answer or
his silence , the belief persuasion of such his delinquency
would naturally be impressed upon the minds of the powers
readers of those who took cognizance of the cause.
The object was to imply in one way or other to imply the
system of for to the purpose of produce the acquittal
of the individual prosecuted. This question of
it happen that the precedents which it was
are so implacable desire as to put a peremptory
exclusion of all arguments the burden of which is to shew
what is most conformable to the
and so seldom actually preserved of public.
This system of exclusion as applied to evidence is the
faintest spark of that system of corruption and c
the English Common Law. The purport of my answer was
to shew in the p excuses in question all repugnancy
to the ends of the , and the s of the p
in which it had been grounded. The purpose of to Clive
in it were not answered. My purpose however was answered.
It was the raising myself in the estimation of my noble friend
the of his nature I expected to
succeed: I expected, and I was not disappointed. His argument
was I
I used scarcely any,
it was made no use
of
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letter 2742, vol. 10 |
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