9 April 1805

Evidence

Introd.

Ch. Procedure Technical

In countries in which the different[?] and self-regarding positions have been more than ordinarily strong, and the arm of justice more than ordinarily weak, profligacy has risen to such a pitch, that a /to/ man who wished /whose wish so were/ to bereave an enemy of his life, houses of call known as such were open, where an assassin /a hand for the bloody work/ /a murderer/ might be tried, as a servant /a [..?] of milk[?], or a hand/ for ordinary domestic work may at a Register office in London /England/. Even in these countries however it does not suppose that depravity, ever secured to any such height, as that a sort of service /species of industry/ /labour/ thus fatal to human life was every where altogether exempt from danger. It is to the profession and office of the man of law it is to the Bar and the Bench that we must look for a hand selling itself every day to the working of known iniquity in all its shapes in a shape of so elevated a situation, as to be altogether exempt from the punishment which at every [...?] is ready to the practice of iniquity upon a smaller scale.