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May 1806
Evidence
Would you know the Of the inconsistency, as of so many others
would you know the psychological, the historical cause? Take in hand
the general key to all law riddles, the difference between the ends of justice
and the ends of judicature.
Pope Leo the 10th kept open In a system of shops, stationary and ambulatory,
Pope Leo the 10th sold licences for the commission of sins. In the reign
of Louis 15th of France, his Ministers were charged with keeping secret
shops for the sale of arrestation-warrants. On pretences notoriously
false, In England shops for were opened ages ago for the selling of the same sort of ware
engines of vexation instruments of ruin, and continue open to this day. Of the four
Courts in Westminster Hall three continue are warehouses of this kind dealers in this kind of ware.
The indulgence shops have long been shut up: the Lettres de Cachet
shops were never fairly opened: the trade of selling which consists in
selling English liberty to oppressors at a fixed price is carried on as with
openly an unblushing a front, and as high a hand as war. To Of necessity, the sole though ever sufficient Necessity is out of the question,
but only warrant grounds cause, no account regard is ever paid taken necessity is never inquired into: down with your money, the warrant
is put into your hand is in your hand. Quotations, references are unnecessary scarce necessary: the abuse
for making age after age the abuse has been staring men in the
face. Every thing that belongs to it is known to every boy: at least to
every body that will read. At what time each sham law the sham law was made: by
whom made, for whose benefit, and what in each case was got protected by it
what lies were told to hide the usurpation from a sleeping Parliament,
the oppression from a plundered people, how the traders fought with
one another for the trade, the plunderers for the plunder, and with by
what lies on both all sides the battle was carried on. All this may
be seen in the books of purchase: all this may be seen even in Blackstone.
So long as it was in the power of the Judges to keep it up, the abuse was
absolutely as well without limit as without remedy. If ever there was a space in
a Jail unfilled, it was only either because it would hold no more, or because
there was nobody that would pay for filling it: if any more liberty remained
unsold, it was only for want of purchasers.
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