13 June 1805

Evidence

Introd

Ch. Procedure technical

''.4. Exclusion of parties

In the earliest stages of the system and for a long time afterwards, the doors of the Temple of justice could not be shut directly in the suitor's face. If he forebear to enter them, it was necessary, the forbearance should be his own act. Every difficulty, every disgust that could be thrown in his way was to be heaped together. The same /Parallel/ acts are suggested every where by the same interests and the same [...?] /parallel /kindred/ interests and parallel situations./ were to be forced into the hands of hireling lawyers, as buyers and sellers of Government Annuities +, are /have been/ forced into the hands of Brokers. ++

For more [...?] of /requisite /expedient/ for producing/ distress /disturbance/ /molestation/ presented themselves: rendering the business to be transcribed[?], rendering the whole business as intricate and difficult to understand as possible: 2. rendering the trouble /plague and mountain/ of attendance as expensive and in other respects as depressing and intolerable as possible. That which was at one time alike understood by all men /subject the most interesting to all men/, which may again be alike understood by all men, while of the rulers of mankind are not lost to all core of reason, and to all sense of duty, may we[?] long be understood alike by all men, which sooner or later, will, must, shall, alike be understood by all men, was to be made the matter of a peculiar and recondite science, which, men could so much as /should be able so much as to/ fancy themselves to understand, but those instruments /[...?] partners/ of the Judge who in conspiracy with their principal in whose favour, that the monopoly of the science might be drawn as light /close/ as possible, it was to made as difficult and at the same time /and thence and for that purpose/ as unworthy, to be understood, as possible.

+ (not to speak of so many other classes of buyers and sellers)

++ G.2.c.