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If Advocates
were not excluded
they would have
greatly the advantage
over
Judges-depute

& inferior Judges.
1. in point of
eloquence

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2. as being at
liberty to go about
and canvass which
the Judge is disbarred
from by
his deputy & by
his oath. p.2

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3. as being disposed
to pliancy
of character. p.3

4
Disadvantages
of those such a
compilation.
1. It would draw
off the best talents
and fortunes to the
order of Advocates.
p.3.

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5.
2. It would give
the advantage to
a class of men
whose habits render
them peculiarly
useful for the station
on several
accounts, viz:
1. Indifference to Hatred of improvement
p.4

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2. Hatred of improvement Indifference to
justice. p.6

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3. Predilection for
injustice. p.7.

8
The habit of defending
bad causes
is an evil which
can not be cured
but at the expence
of a greater. p.8

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9
The license granted
by public
opinion in this
respect does not
do away the
objection of unfitness
p.10

10
The merits displayed
by French
advocates in the legislative
line disproves not the truth
of these observations.
p.10

11
The habits of an
advocate are
not so where
a share in legislation
as to the
administration
of justice. p.11

12
The character of
the Judge ought
to be and might
be free from all
art and management.
p.12.

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When men mean to
magnify the profession,
they suppress
half its
business. p.13

14
Appeal to the
candid in the profession
for the
truth of this
picture. p.14

15
The exclusion
of advocates will
be the less to be
complained of in
France as they
have never hitherto
been admitted.
p.15

16
Advocates will
not by this regulation
be put
in a worse situation
than men
at large, – only
be kept from
putting themselves
in a much better.
p.16.

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The monopoly a
cause of distress to
the very people whom
it appears to benefit:
for being a regular
profession
when men in they
not nailed to it,
& can not charge
it for another without
disgrace.

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