JB/047/184/001

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Decr 1805
Evidence Introd.

§. Opposition of interests between the authors of the System and
the people subject to it.

What grosser or more fatal delusion than for a man
to take his natural and irreconcilable enemies for
his most surest faithful and zealous friends? upon that supposition
to think and speak and act upon every the most important occasions of
life? with content and confidence to behold in those his
enemies the of his fate? the afflictions, which
the grievous and ruinous afflictions, which to their profit
(not say for their profit) he is suffering duly at their hands, to refer them to the truth
of Providence, is the perversity of inexorable nature.

A distinction On this head a distinction seems to be commonly
taken by the public mind. Lawyers are in this as in other points of view as divided
by it into classes. Attornies, Advocates, Judges. With the
interest of the suitor the interest of the Attorney is indeed but
too decidedly at variance. The Attorney is accordingly a dishonourable
man. With Between in regard relation to that same public interest and the interest of the Advocate there may perhaps be a little
difference, but if there be, the effects of it are outweighed by
the illustrious honour dignity of their characters attached to their branch of the profession, and
the Advocate if not the constant friend of the public is at
any rate not the constant enemy, and the Advocate, according
to the scale into which the fee is dropped, is as no less ready to
shew himself the friend of the public than the enemy.

So much for the professional lawyers –

Identifier: | JB/047/184/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1805-12	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2
Box	047	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	184	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	john herbert koe	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	15052
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