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=der of the years has it's Judges sabbath's,
not of days but of months continuance.

What the people now suffer
from the system of delay thus organized,
— what the Judges now get by it, belongs
not in strictness to the present head. But
neither is it without claim to notice.

Chiefly to the cases called Civil
applies what is above. Now for cases called
Penal.

Behold here the interest of Judges
changing, and with it of course the provision
made by them. In penal cases, and in particular
in those most highly penal, not a
day in the year but courts are open to receive
complaint, and complaint made, men complained
against, guilty and innocent together,
are put into jail, How so? because
as above observed. Judges have bodies,
Judges have goods, Judges have lives, so
also as well as other men, have all those
who, in point of interest, are in any particular
way connected with them: bodies,
goods and lives, which, but for some such
protection, might be wounded, carried
off or destroyed.

When in Jail, there they are,
guilty and innocent together, from two days
to 182, as chance pleases. How so? Because,
to Judges and those who are in League
with the Judges, whether, in this case a man

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under these circumstances, in the metropolis
may be seen a choice made: made — not by
one Hercules but by two of them. The one who
has fewest causes gets most ease: the one who
has most causes get most fees. Heath suffers;
and martyrdom to duty is the name given to
canine appetite for fees. Velocity in horsemanship
sees itself rivaled by velocity in judicature.

Mark now how admirably
well adapted is this compound of delay
and precipitation to the ends of judicature
—carried on to the last link through
the chain of useless proceedings, has been the
corresponding chain of fees: so much for fees.

Pending the suit may have
been for years, not a syllable of it has ever
till now been suffered to present itself to the
mind of a Judge, such is the fruit of the mechanical
mode of Judicature,(of which presently,)
substituted to the rational: so
much for ease. Then comes the agreeable circumstance
of making recommendation
of the man or men, by whom, though without
the name, the functions of the Judge are
then to be performed: so much for patronage.

The books that fitted all legs—
the Seven Leagued books — may be seen in fable.
The Judicial Establishment which, should
Parliament so lease, would fit itself to

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	192	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3 / c4 / c13 / c14
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Notes public		ID Number	25979
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