3 July 1804

Procedure & Evidence

Ends

Ch.│ │ Vexation

'.2. Persons

2. Occasional[?] Compensation for unjust punishment. 3. Expence of the Judicial Establishment

7. The public in its collective capacity.

Expence out of the question (of which presently) cases in which vexation in any shape is liable to be inflicted upon the community of the state in its collective capacity are neither manifest nor abundant nor altogether obvious. They are not however altogether without /Nor yet without/ example. States i.e. Makers of states as such/ have their secrets - and for a time (as in case of war or danger of war) their innocent /laudable/ and honest secrets. By divulgation the mischief that in the case of an individual might be produced upon that narrow scale as in the case of a state-secret liable to be produced upon the largest scale. But in the case as in a former one, the remedy is so obvious and so sure to be applied, that unless brought to light by an express scrutiny the evil is apt to be invisible.