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Note to p. 5
(b) When the act was debated which committs establishes
a particular judicature for the trial of East India
delinquents to a particular judicature without
a jury, one reason argument assigned for setting aside
the trial by Jury in this instance was that
unfort in this instance, as ill fortune would
have it, it was physically impossible. The fact
was not disputed: but did the reason satisfy?
Oh no: gentlemen to defend and none to oppose: they do not come
to satisfy or be satisfied: they come to defend and
to oppose. If man were as much of a rational
animal as he is of a pugnacious one, something
might be expected from an unanswerable
argument, when the subject happens to
afford one: no man is happy enough
to find one: but that is not yet his nature. What
you get by it such argument of that description is his unanswerable argument is, that
The more unanswerable an argument is, the less notice is taken of it: this being most compleatly unanswerable, no notice was taken of it at all. so much the less is said on that topic, and so
much the more on others: a deaf ear b sets
all argument at defiance The end of judicature
is not When a declamation has been made
it must be spoken: + + and when could declamation find a better theme? and what declamation could can
be let fly from more advantageous stand on stronger ground than one that had has
Trial by Jury for its theme? The end of judicature is
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