21 April 1805

Evidence

Securities

Ch. Procedure Technical

''.2. Objects pursued

In the objects or ends pointed at by the interests abovementioned some sort of contrarity and competition may already have been observed: to encrease suits and not to encrease them, to encrease labour and not to encrease it: to extract the maximum of their advantage objects somewhat differently [...?] must therefore have been aimed at, means of different description and even opposite tendency as among the legitimate +, so among these illegitimate occasionally employed: each of the interests, each object /interest, each object/ must occasionally have been made to give way, and in some sort sacrificed, to the other. /another/.

1. One interest said - make as many suits as possible.

2. Another interest said - make the profit upon each suit as great as possible.

3. A third said - make the trouble to yourselves from all suits taken together as little /light/ as possible.

Here was a sort of contarity /To a certain degree these interests clashed:/: by the same means /arrangement/ by which one of them was promoted, another was counteracted. The more the profit upon each was augmented, the more the number of them was diminished: for the profit to the man of law being unavoidably attended with expence as well as vexation to a much greater amount to the individual would in many instances by utter inability in many more by dint of [...?] prevent them either from entering into or from continuing in the situation of a suitor - would in other words diminish the number of suits - would strike a number of hypothetical suits out of the list of actual ones - But the suits thus struck out of the list what

Ends.

Conflict.