22 April 1805

Evidence

Securities

Procedure Technical

'' Conclusion

To suppose the advancement of professional which is as much as to say personal interest to have been on all occasions the solely operating motive listened to in the construction of the legal fabric would be to fall into the error of narrow-system-builder to ascribe too much uniformity to the motives of a species of animal that numbers versatility and inconsistency among its essential attributes /characteristic characters/ like of the paramount authority of self-regarding interest the social affection the love of justice, how much soever weakened can not be regarded as destroyed /eradicated/ out of and in every professional and official bosom.

Thus much however may be worth enquiring /attending to/, and I am apt /inclined/ to think that the result of the enquiry would be in the affirmative - viz: whether supposing the ends of justice totally and uniformly /compleatly disregarded from beginning to end/ and supposing accordingly that in the planning of the system of procedure /management of the business/ the sinister interests ruled without rival, the system could have been less beneficial to the [...?...?...?] people in their quality of suitor, more beneficial to the workmen, than it has actually been made: making allowance /made/ for these minor and accidental variations which arise /are necessarily out the necessary offspring/ of the diversities of place and time.

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