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13 There are 1. Mischief to the public by exposing suitors to make choice of unfit assistants. The abolition of this monopoly it would doubtless
be said would be a bad thing for the
public in general. It would deluge the profession
with bad men. Complaints against with or
without cause against both branches of the profession,
with or without cause have always
been but too abundant: and this notwithstanding
that has been taken by wise regulations
to keep unworthy persons out of it. What if
the door wit were opened without distinction!
We should have the tribunals inundated in
France by the overflowings of the Bicetre,
in England with the scum of Newgate.
14 Answer 1 The mischief if there were any is what the country has no tendency to lessen. The tests used To this plea there are several
answers.
One is that whatever be the mischief great or
little, the remedy, thus relied on on which so much stress is laid,
has no sort of tendency to lessen it.
The tests qualifications that are exacted in
England as tests of fitness for this profession in
both its branches may be given as sufficient
specimens of what is to be done by tests of this
kind any where else. If men of this profession
in England are inferior in any respect to men
of the same profession in any other country it
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