21 July 1805

Evidence

Introd. Jurisprudent

Ch.

Equity Jurisdiction

So striking /prominent/ is the singularity, that, narrow as the views of English lawyers generally are it has not escape the eyes /observation/ even of English lawyers. A cow /being/ was not long ago exhibited in London with two heads: one useful like an ordinary head, the other an encumbrance. If the [...?] who had become such an object in the language of inferior animals had paid a visit to the Cow, he might have heard her deploring with grievous sympathy the destitute state of ordinary cows, wondering how each of them with but a single head could contrive to live and breathe. The English lawyer, [commiserating with ready sympathy the case of his fellow creatures on the other side of the water continent], is at a loss /in distress/ to conceive what becomes of Equity, where there are no courts of Equity where Equity has not a Court to help herself with, and how it is that with nothing better than justice, men can contrive to live and breathe.

The plague seems hitherto to have been peculiar, at least in the character of a regularly established disease, to countries subjected to Turkish government. Yet how indifferent so ever to the scurge, it must be questioned whether any Turk was ever heard to pride himself upon it: or to wonder how a country governed by Christian dogs, ever contrived to live without it.