9 Feb y 1807

31 2

Letter IV

Resolut 6.7.8.9.

Juries

After 2. Expence

Mercury, as every body knows was the God of lies; Plutus the God of riches. The temple of Plutus had choice[?] avenues one of them through Mercury's. Every English lawyer is by religion an idolater, Mercury and Plutus are his gods. /+L d Bulen[?] who read so much wisdom in his own mind, fancying or pretending fancy that it was in the books of the Ancients he was reading it, might with another book[?], have read them[?] along with the rest but with a book which it would not have pleased him to give,/ be it so: but to what good use or with what consistency, can the Jury-box, the chosen[?] act of truth /sanctionary[?]/, the refuge if the poor and needy, be placed in either temple?