1 March 1808

Letter VI

Omissa & Facienda

No Allegat n sans X examin

Blackstone, as if it were matter of peculiar importance, Blackstone fighing[?] up the injustice shops in the profit of which he had a /his/ share against the [...?] in /those rural shops, profit[?] of/ which he had no share in[?] speaks of the [...?], of both orders, temporal and spiritual, civil and [...?], as reaping from these and other such preachers from rakes some[?] in here[?] and there[?] and t'other part of the field of litigation, " a harvest of perjaries": as if the mischief of testimonial perjary were any thing different from that of the mendacity to which it gives [...?] and success: as if under the fee-gathering system there were any one set of Judges - any one set of Lawyers, to whom a crop of perjaries[?] was less acceptable, in the /by whose/ exertions made to produce such crops less sincere and strenuous[?]. Hence another: as if under any branch of that system it ever had failed to be, or in the nature of things ever could cease to be, an object of their [...?], to place and preserve the public mind, in the branches of it moral and intellectual, in a state of depravity[?] /depravation/ as consummate /compleat/ as possible.