25 July 1810 20 Note continued

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| | Universities Virtue

1. Virtue Universities

No man can be more fully sensible of any truth, now on every occasion on which he derives an advantage or apprehends no detriment to himself from the declaration of it, more ready to declare it, than /than in the whole fraternity of lawyers and in particular the Judge are to/ the unfitness of this mode of receiving testimony in comparison with that natural and originally only mode which has place in Jury trial as above.

III. The advantages they derive from the substitution of this unfit mode to a fit one are as follows

1. They save themselves from that disturbance whih would be given to their ease by the strech of attention that would be neessary to the listening to and taking a part in the viva voce examination and cross examination of witnesses. Instead of receiving and helping to extract it /the whole of the evidence itself/ in the most trustworthy shape their time is more agreeably occupied in hearing observations made upon this or that part of it by and according to the convenience of their friends and associates at the Bar.

2. From evidence received in this untrustworthy shape they receive /reap/ either by their own hands or by the hands of those subordinates whose offices are sold or given by them or given by them for their benefit profit to themselves in the shape of fees, and in the shape of ease of advantage to their confederate the man of finance, on whom they depend for support to abuse in this and the several other shapes in which they derive a profit from it.