19 May 1805

Evidence

Introd.

False Ends. Judge

' 3. Corruption. Cause

Under the influence of this principle of corruption, the nature of the mischief receives an addition from two other circumstances. On is, in point of magnitude, and that a most enormous one. The quantum of emolument extractable by a Judge form any such occasion, will never make /correspond to/ more than an adequate /a portion/ of the which /entire/ /aggregate/ head of vexation and expense imposed on the suitor by that same occasion: so that in this way for every particle of profit /benefit/ received into his own purse, the Judge, with or without intending it, will be /was/ obliged to load the suitor with a burthen some number of times as great.

Another is in point of duration, past and probable future. The non-necessity of any increase /addition/ to the number of such occasions, that is of the operations required to be performed on those occasions, has never been so manifest to the public eye, ill-informed as it is, and through despair of information incurious on this ground, as the existence of any addition that may happen on this or that occasion to have been made: and thus it is that in every known state of things /society/ past or present the system of judicial procedure has been converted into a system of depredation [of] which the administration of justice has been the obsensible object, extortion has been the object principally pursued, and with much superior success. (a)

Note. (a) In Geneva affords /may be seen/ an exception: but of that sort of exception which operate in confirmation of the rule.