12 June 1805

Evidence

Note continued

Introd.

Ch. Procedure Natural

''. Confront. Object n to [...?]

Note ( ) to p.2. continued

In proof of the property[?] and unvexatiousness of such personal attendance, were an argument to that effect presented to the English Judge, what answer would he have to make? The class of men to which I have the honour to belong as a class of men who only now and then mean what they say, and to whose word it is [...?] prudent to give evidence. The paper was signed by me[?] it is true, but like so many other papers which I am in the habit of signing like so many other [...?] which I am in the habit of making [...?] by solemn signature it is all /a [...?] of/ a falsehood from beginning to end. The King knew nothing of /about/ the matter: I myself knew as little: were the Defendant to come to me (in Court or out of Court - at that time or at another) I should refuse to hear him: were he not to come he would not suffer the penalty of ,100 or any other [...?] penalty: he would be [...?] and [...?] in an inexplicable[?] variety of other ways. What I mind he should do was to employ an Attorney, but the business might come before me, through the medium of my learned friends, in a regular way; a fact which any man may easily [...?] himself about, where [...?] he has [...?] to understood that my [...?] ends I am sure that fit to be believed. Therefore as the Attorney came instead of Client: act this[?] the Attorney himself were he to attend at the time and place at which I have thus commanded attendance to be paid; would be spoken to or suffered to speak any more than his client.