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5 Aug. 1812
Evidence Introd
The of what passes here can be so much to is
what really here: Whatsoever may be the
such is the which according the implication involved in such an
use is the victim intertwined plan.
(a) which is in the text ever written which ever
Note (a) to p.156
(a) Written in January 1212. Since that time, this subject seems appears to have received a
considerable elucidation, from a conversation, of which the
following is the Report, given in the Morning Chronicle of
the 30th of July 1812.
On this as on other occasions, if, there be any
in any respect, incorrectness or incompleatness be
chargeable upon the Reports they published, the fault lies
on those who having it in their power tocause whats secure
to all such Reports the utmost possible degree of correctness and
compleatness choose, as the next best thing to state of things to Venetian secrecy, is skilled
of things one in which misrepresentation
is constant
and unavoidable.
Whatsoever may be the
notion intertwined in elsewhere
other places, a notion which in those
places a notion seems
implied in
such an arrangement a state of things
is – that noth no account
of what passes
there can be so discreditable
to those among
whom it passes, as
that which what really passed
there,
– no false account
are of what passes
there can be so discredtable
as a true
one.
"House of Lords – July 29, 1812.
"... Respecting the Inclosure Affidavit Bill, the
"Lord Chancellor observed, that it required
"further consideration. If is object was merely
"to register affidavits, to facilitate the proof
"of handwriting relative to Inclosure Bills,
"there could be little objection to it; but if
"it were intended that these Affidavits
"were to serve as proofs of the facts stated in
"them, their Lordships would, no doubt, pause
"a good while, before they sanctioned a proceeding
"by which they would give up the
"most effectual test of truth as to the allegations
"of in a private Bill, – the examination
"of witnesses vivâ voce there being no doubt upon Oath; before
their Lordships Committees "there being no doubt that were it not for that examination
"upon Oath before their Lordships Committees,
"private Bills might frequently operate the
"greatest injustice towards individuals."
Extracts from the "Report from the Committee" of the House of Commons) appointed
"to enquire into the causes that retard the decision of suits in the
"High Court of Chancery." Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed Date of the Order for printing,
18 June 1811.
P.35. "Account of the Receipts of the Lord Chancellor, continued
from the 5th April 1810 to the 5th April 1811.
"At the Bankrupt Office – £4,946:14s.8d."
– At the Bankrupt Office: – that is, for hearing causes and determining
causes, upon⊞ ⊞ upon evidence
never presented in
any other than the
affidavit shape, of
which the effects are
above described. evidence from the Affidavit shape, more reports as above described.
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