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1 June 1804

Evidence

Ch. <Engl. Law
Outlawry</note>(6

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the only part that
is here to be recovered
goes in to the pockets of
men in high office
giving them an interest
in the perpetuation of
the abuse.

Let him reflect that all this is mere plunder, without any
real reason in terms of utility and for giving a of it to any of the persons among
whom it is distributed, then to the Algerians or the Makrattes —
that a great part of it no small of it is distributed among the dignitaries
of the law, and other persons in high office as well as other sharers the of high official power — the
Attorney General — the Lords of the Treasury Judges of the Court of
Exchequer the Lords of the Treasury the Officers through whom
the things sign nominal is obtained: that by this means all
these personages have an immediate pecuniary interest interest, an interest of the grossest/most substantial kind in
giving a tranquil eye and a supporting hand to so enormous a of an
and their support to this abuse. |

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The delay resulting from
all this complication is
still more boundless
than the expence

That among all these in this last of (33??) prom official men a large proportion — though
it is impossible to say what proportion + possess add</add> have each of them to the faculty
in in many cases on many occasions the obligation arising from more important businesses and
on all occasions an unrefutable pretence, for of determining that petty business in his hands, for an unlimited length
of time; and that accordingly in so far an unlimited especially enormous mass of
factitious and unnecessary expense: that this is a but a sample
and not nor that an unfair one, of the general plan under of
cheating of the observed by the law of England with the people committed to
their its charge: that this is the system the promises of which those who profit <are fattened</add> by
it are never tired of singing chanting, nor those who are crushed oppressed
by it (to make a pitch of infatuation has delusion swelled soared !) of hearing listening

This a specimen of the
indifference of men to
to the most grievous abuses.

When all this has been sufficiently reflected upon, let him ask
himself whether when applied to such a system, the fable of allegory of
which the Oyster and its shells are the subject, the oyster from the pan of the and fabalists to as any thing but
correct under a veil: whether it be in this time it be
in the power of exaggeration to go beyond outstrip the the truth — and whether
in in the mouths of a class of men whose safe secure amendments exceed what whatever among
their fellows in any other country was ever at the risk of their necks by bribery,
it be a sufficient answer to make to all complaints [to the complaints that if the truth were
known would pour on on all sides form an oppressed and plundered to
stand up and say] — we take no bribes.

<note> [+] that after ages up[on ages of experience,
the most
predatory modes forms and the
most frugal — the most
dilatory and the most
expeditious, prompt are kept
on foot with equal
composure: the most
dilatory predatory and dilatory,
maintained by themselves
after manufactured by
themselves or their predecessors,
the only prompt
and frugal modes fixed
upon them from time to
time by the momentary
unsteady and exertions
[of the legislator]
of the small number of
legislators by whom the
true real welfare of the people
and the adaptation of the
to the ends of justice
are taken for the true
objects of their cause

Identifier: | JB/057/064/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 57.
Date_1	1804-06-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	13-15
Box	057	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
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