16 June 1805

Evidence

Introd

Ch. Procedure Technical

''.6 Minor advantages

Two advantages though of minor /subordinate/ importance are too material /not/ to be omitted /mentioned/, though the relation they bear to the system is perhaps rather that of consequences than that of final causes

1. One is the advantage of doing ones business in good company: in select company of intimates, having the same /connected by identity of/ interests, affections, ideas, manners: these too in a state of subordination and dependence in relation to the Judge. In such company, from such courses whatever matter comes to be presented, will of course be presented in a form the smoothest and most acceptable that can be devised.

Another is the negative advantage of not being obtruded upon by bad company: a short phrase for a numerous and miscellaneous list of negative advantages, amongst which is that of a mans not being obliged /escaping/ /being exempted/ to hear abundance of things /discourses/ which it might be inconvenient to him to hear, to see abundance of sights /things/ which it might be inconvenient to him to see: [...?] and spectacle of woe, misery in all its forms, scenes of [...?], from which his profit is extracted, and to the depth of which it is proportioned.

But that from any sympathetic failings that could be executed[?] /executable[?]/ by such objects in such experienced breasts might not find fortitude sufficient for their endurance, but that inasmuch in whatever a man know, he would at the same be known to know, dissatisfaction might chance to be excited in the minds of bystanders as well as parties /suitors/, from the observation /reflection/ should it happen to them to observe /consider/ how efficient a part in the aggravation or production of the discourse was taken /borne/ by the hand professedly occupied in the application of the remedy. Whatever mischiefs it could be inconvenient to him /a man/ to prevent, much more those that /to which/ it is convenient to him to give birth /produce/, no more facts of understanding /as backward to comprehend/ how inconvenient it would be to have to be so much as suspected, much more to be known, to know.

The [...?] of professional lawyers, one believed another, serve[?] s so many serves which prevent the light of unwelcome truth from being seen to reach the Judge's /great man's/ eyes.