30 Jan y 1805

Evidence

Securities

Ch. Engl. Proleg.

''.2 Bad Procedure Causes

That the honest reader, and more especially the reader whose social affections are yet warm, who /whose uncorrupt /susceptible/ mind/ is not yet past the swarm[?] of public virtue whose judgment /[...?]/ has not yet been led captive /enchained/ by the force of professional interest and personal ambition - may not be altogether without a clue of /psychological/ the psychological hand to facilitate his travels /guide his footsteps/ through the labyrinth of error /misgovernment/ about to open to his view, a few leading points /[...?]/ /facts/ shall in the character of causes be just mentioned without being at all insisted upon in this place. These are

1. The professional /relative/ interests and situations of the class of persons in whose operations /to whose agency/ the system of procedure as well as the greater part of the substantive system of law has its rise - a set of workmen whose interest it is to make the work as bad as the ignorance and patience[?] of the employers will suffer it to be.

2. In respect of the condition of the main body of the laws /government/, the want /utter absence/ of that responsibility which attaches upon particular functionaries in respect of particular branches, such as those of finance, political economy in general, and the administration of military [...?] and other channels of national defence.

3. The total absence of encouragement, coupled with the abundance of positive discouragement under which the most important of arts and sciences and arts labours, in comparison of all others not excepting the most trifling and indifferent /the most trifling not excepted/