9 June 1805

Evidence

Note

Ch. False Ends.

' 3. Corruption. Cause

Note 9 (a). Note to Page 3.

(a) But reward - (it may be asked) in every branch of administration is it not a rule that reward, attached to service, in the view of service should /ought/ in its quantum increase in proportion to service keep pace with service? Is not this a rule, and a rule of universal unity in the renumerative branch of the service or art of government? Doubtless: and when the idea to be attached to service is made clear, it will be found to attach /apply/ to this branch /department/ of public service than to any other. But in this case the question to be attended to is what is the object properly designated by the word service? Now the service here in question the service which it is the duty of the Judge to render, is no other than that of fulfilling on each occasion the inverse ends of justice that so far as the ultimate ends of justice are concerned, the value and quantum of the service is not susceptible of majors and minors: and so far as the collateral incidental ends, avoidance /non-production/ of vexation, expense and delay are concerned, the magnitude and value of the service is not in the direct, but in the inverse ratio of the length and number of the operations performed or the increase of each suit by or under the direction of the Judge, supposing the direct and collateral ultimate ends of justice to be fulfilled. Karamosin, the distinguished Russian traveller, gives a humourous account /exemplification/ of the art of making business as practised by parties at the English, he might have added, the French, Sea Ports, on the arrival of a cargo of passengers. One loads himself with a man's hat-box, another with his cane, a third with his handkerchief if it happens to fall into his hand. They could not have been greater professionals in this art, had they studied it for years under the ci-devant French or English set of Judges.