Jan y 1808

on L d Eldon's Bill

Note 2

Directions to Judges

Introduction

Dear Swift in speaking of English judicature, considers it as a branch of the Slave-trade, in which the part of the Negro is borne by the class of the Non-Lawyers, the part of the Negro-[...?] by the [...?] of Lawyers. The statement /allegation of [...?]/ does not appear altogether far from the harp[?] of incorrectness: since /since/ howsoever in the two cases the effect may be thought to coincide the cause presents a considerable difference. In the Black Slave Trade, at least in the management of the cattle whose own put /got/ into the pound, every thing that is done is done by downright /pure/ force. Fraud finds no demand for her assistance: whereas in the White Slave Trade, form without Fraud would have found himself continually at a loss, the silly Whales[?] would neither have then long continued nor from the first hour suffered themselves to be made Slaves, if they had not dupes, and [...?] the most cognizance [...?] that are upon record any where.

It was in this persuasion [...?] Dean after finishing what the Critics pretend to consider is unfinished, has Directions for Servants, opined /projected/ a School for profits of a higher class, composed Directions for Judges. Regard not, my Lord, as an idle tale, what I am about to whisper to Your Lordship in the strictest confidence. My Lord, I would no more swerve[?] a hare's breadth from the sacred [...?] of truth though it were in pursuit of pleasantry, than a Judge of the English school would in pursuit of power or money.