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3 June 1808
By an An amended edition of an English practice another
mode of defraying in part the expence of compensation
might pro tanto be employed. I mention it not as
good absolutely but only as relatively eligible. I speak
of the comparatively recent institution of Special Juries.
By one of those examples of aristocratical
which are but too frequent in English legislation, no allowance
being made to the mere individual members belonging less opulent and
more common populous classes out of which common Jurymen
are taken, one allowance to the amount of a guinea a head at the expence of one or other of the
persons is made to those inhabitants members individuals of a higher
and more elevated class out of whom Special Jurymen
are taken.
True: but unless parties were made to pay
extra they the number of individuals subjected to
this service in the character of special jurymen would
be encreased to such a degree, that in the aggregate
it would be intolerable.
Admitted. To prevent this It may therefore be necessary that
parties having a Special Jury should pay a special
price: but what is not necessary is that this price
or any part of it should go into the pockets of the
Special Jurymen.
Yeomen serving by compulsion and without
pay, is there any reason why gentlemen should go
free whenever they are not paid?
A gentleman man whose means of subsistence are
not dependent upon the sale of his time less afford
to part with it, than a man who has his subsistence
of which that time is not the service?
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