5 July 1804

Procedure & Evidence

Evils

2d order

7 or 1. vexation 2. to defendant

 Vexation to the defendant

I Natural causes

1 to 7 The same as in a case of vexation to the demandant

8. Arrangements necessary to be taken for the securing the justiciability of the defendant himself for example imprisonment for safe custody, obligation to find security, whether by ----ation of property, or by fide jussors[?] - friends wantonly[?] pledging their property for the performance of the engagement.

II Factitious causes, negative, and positive

The same as in the case of vexation to demandant.

Intricacy

In a current parallel to that of expence, vexation in other shapes. For - not to dwell on labour and loss of time - to what degree must not the pressure upon the mind of the traveller be enhanced, by the observation of the darkness in which the whole league of the road /in its whole length/ with the issue at the end of it, and his fate which hangs upon it /that issue/ is involved?

This darkness will not fail to appear more and more gloomy, and his confidence in the result, weaker /fainter/ and weaker /more and more tottering/ /less and less steady/, the more intimate his acquaintance with this track, the more correct his view of it.