11 April 1805

Evidence

Note

Securities

Ch. Procedure Technical

''. Objects ulterior

The aggregate number of offences committed and prosecuted being given, his interest requires, that the number of offences committed by the rich, or prosecuted by the rich, or both, be as great as possible: and a converse, that the number of offences committed by the poor /indigent/, or prosecuted by the indigent or both, be as small as possible.

From various causes /Whatever be the cause, and there are various ones/ the majority of offences in number and value: (i.e. degree of mischievousness) that is the majority of crimes together will be such in which the poorer classes have more concern /are more concerned/ than the richer. concerned in the character of prosecutors, and in a still larger proportion in the character of delinquents: [...?] 1. The poorer classes are the most populous. 2. Offences produced of indigence are far more numerous than offences of all other descriptions put together; and offences produced by indigence are naturally /most apt to be/ the offences of the poorer classes.

Note?

Between, profit, reputation and power, and consequently between the interests respectively created /generated/ by those objects of universal /general/ desire, the connection is intimate and almost inseparable: so that /and/ where a mans interest in quality of /the character of/ a man might have outweighed his interest in point of profit in the character of a lawyer, it may happen that his interest in point of reputation in the character of a lawyer, being so superadded may /shall/ have the scale on the other side

Note?

In different countries under different systems, this conflict of interests will be found productive /may be observed to have been productive/ of different effects. In some, in the character of a lawyer the interest of a mans reputation has been better served by the punishment of crimes prosecuted, and thence decreasing /diminishing/ the number of crimes committed than by giving impunity to crimes; in others, it has been better served by giving impunity to crimes, and thence by encreasing the number of crimes than by diminishing it.