4 Feb y 1807

Omitt or Postpone 11

Letter IV

Resolut 6.7.8.9.

Juries

Lawyers the fondness

4. Class the 4 th. Causes which by reason of their complexity and although the whole mass of evidence which the case furnished be fothcoming, are by reason of their complexity incapable of being gone through in the compass of a single sitting.

In regard to causes of this description nature has rendered it strictly speaking impossible that they should be heard[?] throughout by a Jury, tried with the benefit of all the wisdom, and all the observations required by that evidence is matter of physical impossibility.

In English proactive causes of this description, are in great numbers submitted in show and pretence to the cognizance of a Jury. What is impossible is to try the cause /do the business/. What is not possible, is - to receive the fees in pretence of trying it /received for doing it/.

Receiving money of false pretences is in some cases felony: but these are where the receivers are weak and helpless: subject to the laws, not makers[?] of laws in pretence of being declarers.