[058-294]

24 March 1805

Evidence

Securities

Ch. Procedure Technical

by the legislator, had his endowments been adequate and his attention duly and steadily pointed to the task, the consequences of this unhappy contrarity of interests might originally /from the first/ have been, and may at any time be obviated, and the mischief in a great degree avoided. Unhappily the legislator, repelled by the factitious difficulties of the subject, has every where, in a great degree /for the most part/ shrunk from the task, having the arrangements of procedure to be settled /[...?] [...?]/ in the way of jurisprudential law, by his inadequate /incompetent/ and essentially incapable vice-gerant, the Judge /the man of law himself/: or where in the station of legislator, and in the form of statute law, a man has stood forth to change the system of procedure of this or that portion of the mass of abuse which has been seen adherent to it /with which it has been seen to be imputed/, the legislator has been no other than the name of law himself, with all his vices and imperfections, the fount[?] /offspring/ of his sinister interests upon his head, employed by the sovereign to undo his own work, to oppose his own interests, to counteract /frustrate/ and impede /frustrate/ his own designs.