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 The honourable gentleman throws down his glove gauntlet
 before to the Crown - Lawyers: to them he "appeals
 for the truth and fidelity Talk of truth and fidelity! and appealappeal to lawyers! and to Crown-lawyers! as if they had any What have they to do with truth, or with any thing that is called fidelity except with it be fidelity to the thing to do with truth or with fidelity of any kind except to the power that pays them! of the description." 
 appeal in such a cause to them! to them indeed!  What is truth to them?
 What idea have they of  fidelity except to the purse  that pays them.
 The hirelings,  hear this,& sit stand mute: or is the notion of
 hirelings to do when public good alone calls upon them
 to speak and their the seal padlock which interest prejudice
 has fastened put and prejudice join in fastening on their life is
 not opened broken by a fee. Is truth the real object of
 the honourable champion's passion?  will he contend enter the 
 lists for her with a disinterested votary admirer? will he
 condescend vouchsafe to break a bann for her with an
 untested or a bigamist, not ennobled with venality, with a plebeian      <add>combatant whom no venality has ennobledunennobled by </add> venality, who is
 no Thing!  lawyer nor any mans , but
 the lawyer of the people whose fee of money will be paid
 him if ever upon his tomb, by a people yet
 to come? 
| Identifier: | JB/035/075/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35. | |||
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| 035 | constitutional code; evidence; procedure code | ||
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| text sheet | 4 | ||
| recto | f5 / f6 / f7 / f8 | ||
| jeremy bentham | [[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]] | ||
| arthur young | |||
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