14 August 1804

Procedure

Evils Cause

False Ends

ch. Lawyers' interest

'3 Specific Sinister End

' Specific sinister ends, naturally pursued upon the spur of sinister interest.

The points in which the particular interest of lawyers is opposite to the general interest being given, the mischiefs which it will be their interest and ---- their study /endeavour/ to introduce and to perpetuate are also given.

1. The have an /a professional/ interest in the augmentation of expence. It will /Therefore it will naturally/ be their study to encrease expence.

2. They have a preponderant interest in the augmentation of delay. Therefore it will naturally be their study to encrease delay - at least it will not be their study to diminish it: especially in any way in which it can not be diminished without the diminution of their own interest.

3. They have a clear - at least a preponderant interest in the non-notoriety, and thence in the intricacy /general non-intelligability/ of the body of the laws. Therefore when once it is intricate and non-intelligible enough for their purpose, it will naturally be their study to prevent its being rendered generally notorious and intelligible, and rather to encrease upon all occasion the unintelligibility and non-notoriety of it.