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28 Decr. 1810
Prize 1805 1809
In the expression one pound per centum per month
substituted by imbecillity or lawyercraft to
twelve per cent per annum may be seen another seed
of business – another instrument of arbitrary power put
into the hands of the Judge. Here may be seen another
of those innumerable and perpetually infallible recurring receipts means which
am English Judge has for without any the slightest
danger of disruption hazard to character reputation for as to punishment it is in all
cases equally out of the question, an English Judge has
of for shewing mercy unto him those to whom it pleaseth him
to shew mercy. Of months there are be two kinds, calendar
and Lunar: and calendar: Lunar calendar being in use on some occasions to some purposes,
calendar or lunar to others: Mercy being the reigning
virtue of the moment, demand your one per cent in
a lunar calendar month, you will learn that you ought to
have demanded it in a calendar month: demand
it in a calendar month, you will learn that you
ought it to have demanded it in a lunar month.
If such convenient flexibility is the rule
of action throughout the decision if unwritten, alias &c &c
law, of that sort of law which if that which has no
existence words to give it could be said to be made by any body would
have the lawyers would have the Judges for its makers,
of that sort of law and which where men are man is tired of power, lawyers with
the deluded crowd at their heels will cease to idolize,
to idolize at the expence of the only sort of law which without
the grossest of imposture can ever be called by that justly
venerated name.
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