25 Oct 1805

Evidence

Appropriate

These questions therefore that in English jurisprudence present themselves in abundance, are capable of being comprized under the general head of questions relative to appropriate evidence, /work/ - not out of the nature the things /case/, but out of depraved and neglected state and condition of English law:

1. Out of the negligence of the legislator in not furnishing the people with the document necessary for their information and guidance: the list of the several legal demands, with the Titles in which they are respectively to be granted.

2. On the fraud and hypocrisy of the Judges /judicial fraternity/: who pretending to see a rule of action laid down every where where there is none, punish the suitors without caring and without mercy for the pretended transgressions of their imaginary rules. [barkmasters[?] of the low Egyptian race, who requiring of their vassals /slaves/ such bricks as are not to be made without straw, will keep back the supply of straw, yet punish men for not having made the bricks.]