8 April 1805

Evidence

Intro

ch Lawyers' character

' Hypocrisy

The effrontary of mountbanks is /became/ proverbial, and is considered as standing at the top of the scale. But compared with that of an English law-writer - a Coke, a Gilbert, or a Blackstone - it is modesty /all simplicity and diffidence/ /----/. No mountbank in magnification of his powder of ----, and of the virtues ---- in it, ever launched /-----/ into such extra----, as as uttered /bestowed every day/ by English lawyers upon the poisons of which they are the vendors and ---- for and which in such oppressive quantity are crammed by --- down the throats of a too passive people.