24 Jan y 1807

Omitt or Postpone 8

1. Proposition

Letter IV

Resolut. 6.7.8.9

Lawyers fond of Juries

It moreover rids them of no inconsiderable part in general much the greater part, of the time that should have been bestowed in the [...?] of another great class of causes - viz. those in /to/ which by reason of their complexity the application of Jury trial is impossible. The fact that in that mode justice is actually not administered is matter of compleat notoriety to all lawyers. The conviction that in that mode justice can not be administered is equally extensive. This does not hinder them or any of them from recovering their fees in the pretence of doing[?] what [...?] so well to be impossible. Though in this or that in t'other individual case this knowledge can not be /should not be capable of being/ proved upon them, yet in this class of causes taken in the aggregate the fact is too notorious to need a word to be bestowed[?] upon it in the way of proof.

Yet in no one instance whatsoever - I am sure is none that ever reached my notice, in print - in parliament - any where, where it could present a chance of being of use - was alwyer ever known - to mention by either as an objection to the use of Juries - or as an inconvenience from which it were to be wished that that institution should be set free /clear/.