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19 June 1805
Evidence
When this class of offences is deducted, (in which homicide,
and a few other offences species of delinquency, in to which
rich and poor are alike exposed to fall, were however though unavoidably
included) the remainder is composed of are alike open
to both classes. conditions in life.
It is accordingly for the case for the accommodation of offending opulence opulent delinquency,
that in addition to the so called civil remedy by action,
the so-called criminal remedy by information, the solemn remedy
as it is called in the language of silenced men is provided.
In cases of this complexion thus circumstanced, were the prosecutor and defendant
compelled or admitted allowed to meet one another at the first outset at
in the presence of the Judge, or in the pauper cases abovementioned,
the art of makin business making, and every pretence for encreasing
it would be destroyed put an end to: accordingly the essential meeting
the only sort of audience at which good justice can be done justice can be properly administered as it ought to be
is no less carefully excluded in this commercial class, than in the
civil class of cases. Writings accordingly and Missives, wish
for the Attorney Attornies, wish for Advocates are here manufactured in
sufficient quantity: and, in return for all that business making the profit upon all this business,
facilities for perjury are given to gentlemen (for information
causes are gentlemen's causes facilities as great (it will be
seen) as gentlemen can reasonable expect or decently give. can expect or gentlemen give with any
shew of reason.
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