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8 July 1806
Evidence Scotch Reform

If on such an occasion title to confidences were worth
looking to, (and it will be worth the less in every man's eyes
the more correct his comprehension is of the ends of justice) the
opinion of an English lawyer would be worth most to the body of Scottish
suitors, and for the same reason as that of a Scotch lawyer would
be to that of English ones. Why? because though the a Chinese lawyer
of say China is a nearer neighbour to a Scotch or English one, than
a Scotch or English Suitor or Client is to either, yet in the
case of this cross interchange of advice the neither the sinister interest
nor the prejudice which like a weed grows out of interest being quite so strong,
the opinion is not likely to be quite so perversely warped by it.

Men, individuals I mean never have been, nor I hope and trust ever will be
in either part of the country altogether wanting, in whose bosom the generous
love of praise, or the still more generous affection social sympathy of philanthropy
are capable of obtaining gaining an occasional ascendant has obtained occasional triumph over those grosser
affections which are commonly apt to be presented and to the exclusion
shown by the word interest.⊞ ⊞ At this moment
my bosom swells with
a mixture of pride and
affection at the recollection thoughts
of some illustrious
examples (alas – these are not more numerous!) whose examples of the assistance
of which may Your Lordship
never be deprived. But when classes and bodies order of
ruin are considered, and they, continuing their existence, their
views, their opinions, through a succession of ages, to expect
that their conduct, or in consequence their language should ever receive its
determination from any other motive than that of interest in its
narrowest sense, would be to expect that water should move fly upwards,
or sparks downwards.

A corporation is a sort of a thing which has no conscience.
We have it It is an among the articles of the English lawyer's creed:
he has it from Lord Coke. It is one of the few, if there be any
other, rules of English law, and inceptions which of the wisdom science of English lawyers is composed that has no unannounced exception to
make it false: and if he gets an exception to it were to be found
to for it shall it be looked for in the instance of that great though unchartered corporation of with
which his Lordship was but acquainted, that great though unchartered corporation
of which he had been
the head, and which sees
all others at its feet?

Identifier: | JB/091/025/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1806-07-08	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	025	Info in main headings field	scotch reform
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	iping 1804
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	bernardino rivadavia
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1804
Notes public		ID Number	29021
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