date

18 Feb. 1817 Plan Cat 2 o
18 Feb. 1817

Plan Cat

2 o

Introd

§.8. Freedom of suffrage

afterwards to

§.16 Conclusion

Qualification premium[?]

exactd by Terrorism

2

Such was the change of design and such the cause /causes/ of it As to the means

employed they were such as are congenial to the practice, and to might be expectd for

the composition of the Honourable House. They were devised and carried into effect by

lawyercraft /As usual, lawyercraft was the instrument /power/

Insincerity is a vice[?]it be mentioned a vice[?] inseparable from sincerity

incompatible with the situation and practice of every practising Barrister: and to be

or have been a practising Barrister is {by the bye the condition of every English

Scotch and Irish Judge.

By the counsels of the practising Barrister is it his in[?] practice of the

Honourable House in[?] its general have been always guided and determined

It is the interest of every practising Barrister that practises or wishes to

practise it is the interest that in every thing that is done their insincerity

/falshood/ /fiction[?]/ in the greatest quantity possible should have place. To[?]

1. In the first place, by this means the morals of the public, especially the higher

part of it are debased /corrupted[?]/

2. In the next pl. The understanding /intellects/, faculties of the same public are

bewildered, confounded, debased and rendered to a state of debility so prostrate[?]

as to send them for guidance not only in matters of law but in matters of legislation

to these their natural enemies whose interest is in a state of irreconciliate

opposition to the universal interest and to every distinguishable part of it

3. In the next place fiction[?] under the name of fictive mendacity being an

instrument of their own inventing[?] and framing an instrument /one of the main

instruments/ which none but themselves are permitted the use of, by every use made of

it, /extension is given to/ their sinister power is extended, and advancement to

their sinister interests.
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