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1 Aug 1812 Evidence Introd
1 Aug 1812

Evidence Introd

Introd

Ch.26. Impris. for Debt

'.5. End - Lawyers profit

To argue in short by truth to the Judges. People of England! When will you open your eyes? how long will you be the dupes of sophistry hypocrisy and masquerade?

To the [...?] of sinister interest a high place at its point [...?] of ascendancy, yes, imprisonment for debt is necessary: to justice as necessary as human happiness as longer slavery is to manly words [...?] and punishable for [...?].

In respect of solvency, in respect of innocence or delinquency the situation of the [...?] [...?] and debtor is susceptible of the following modifications.

Hang across a rope at the ends of a string, two cats fear and worry one another to the very death. Each poor animal beholds in his fellow sufferer the author of his /its/ misery. And is he so indeed! /it then the true author/: No but the ill-taught victim to whom his agency of these his [...?] his source of savage pleasure.
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    2. To the accomplishment of the proposed object, viz. discharge of the debt, supposing a debt [...?] is this infliction necessary? Another point this concerning /in relation to/ which the Judge refuses to inform himself.

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    In the case of a claim of debt first point on each occasion to be settled /ascertained/ is - what on the part of the alledged debtor is the real cause of the resistance made by him to the demand, and thence of the suit. is it a difference /any real difference of/ opinion on /as to/ the question of right [...?] has it any share in the production of that resistance? by no other cause than a [...?] or is it an unwillingness to part with the money, or a present inability to provide it?

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    '.5. End Lawyers profit

    If within the same walls within which the blameless debtor finds a plan of his on the bed or stretched on the floor without so much as the bed of wretchedness, the fraudulent /[...?]/ debtor has a life of ease and plenty it is because it is the interest of Judges that he who comes thither has other mens money in his pocket should lead that life. Whether it be /operate/ in the shape of fees received by his own hand whether it be in the shape of patronage that is in other words fees received by the hands of a woman that it operates, the force and effect of sinister interest is still the same, with only this difference that received by the hands of a woman a hundred pounds worth of a mass of fees to a given amount the value is sometimes though not always less when received by the hand /by the patron through/ the hand of a woman than when received immediately into his own. Under the name of rent, or under some other name the comforts enjoyed in a Jail by a /the/ dishonest debtor, are bought with the money of the injured creditor, bought of the Jailer, and the Jailer is nominated by some Judge and it is by some Judge that the Jailer is placed /stationed/ in this his profitable post.