12 Jan y 1807

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A sulutary usury, by which no mortal man alive suffered - by which all parties were benefited but in the benefit of which Judge and C o had no share, while in the punishing of it they had their share - that was not to be endured: it kindled the fire in the face of Lord Kenyon every time it came before him.

An examinatory usury, in which every Antonio finds his Shylock - an usury by which the innocent and injured individual - the lender of the forced loan - suffers torment, which his oppressor enjoys the prospect and the benefit of it - a sort of usury in which the borrower pockets interest instead of paying it - but a usury so managed that the oppressor can not reap his profit but that Judge and C o, who put it into his hands, must share in it - this is the usury, of which nothing is said; this is the usury which is regularly and safely, because securely, practiced:- which is practiced to the extent, a part and no more than a part of which Your Lordship has been seeing, and which might be practiced to any imaginable extent - and still, in the eyes of so many learned and noble Lords, as well as of so many learned and honourable gentlemen, leave " every thing as it should be."