JB/058/282/001

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12 June 1805
Evidence

Delay is a cluster of evils in one word. So long as it
subsists continues, the general end remains unattained: the arrangements made
predictions delivered, engagements taken, on the behalf on the subject in question by the
article of substantive law in question, continue unfulfilled: the
particular end or ends whatever whichever they be that on the occasion
in question correspond to the arrangements, predictions, engagements in question, and should have been fulfilled, administration
of punishment for delinquency, administration of satisfaction for injury, collation of rights – conversion by the Judge, of the inchoate right in
question into the correspondent consummate one – continue unfulfilled.

Mean time the two dark Stygian currents – vexation and expence,
keep running on: vexation, on the part of this or that
sort of person, the demandant at any rate, certainly: expence, naturally
and probably: certainly of unless the whole space of time
occupied by the delay in question be purely void a pure blank: no incidents
of expence having taken place in the course of it.

Note ( ) to p.2. continued

Were this to be In proof of the propriety and unvexatiousness of such personal
attendance, were this an argument to that effect presented to an English
Judge, what answer would he have to make? I have the honour The
class of man to which I have the honour to belong is a class of men who
mean nothing of only now and then mean what they say, and to whose word it is never prudent
to give evidence. The paper was signed by me it is true, but like
so many other papers which I am in the habit of signing, like so many other
assertions which I am in the habit of making mean by solemn signature it us all a a lesson of
falshood from beginning to end. The King knew nothing of about the matter – I myself
knew as little: were the Defendant to come to me (in Court or out of court
at that time or at another) I should refuse to hear him: were he not to come
he would not suffer the penalty of £100 or any other specific penalty: he would
be vexed and pillaged in an inexplicable variety of other ways. What I meant he should
do ws to employ an Attorney, that the business might come before me, through
the medium of my learned friends in a regular way, a fact which
any may may easily satisfy himself about, when once he has sufficient to understand
that my brethren and I are not fit to be believed. Therefore let the Attorney
come instead of the Client: not that the Attorney himself would were he to attend
at the time and place at which I have thus commanded attendance to be paid,
would be suffered spoken to or suffered to speak any more than his client.

Identifier: | JB/058/282/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-06-12	Marginal Summary Numbering	a continued
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	282	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2 / e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	18951
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