3 June 1804

Procedure. A2 Evidence

Ch. Basis

[...?] Adoption [...?]

The object of the present course being not to confirm inveterate abuses, but unmask them, and by so doing, is possible to pave the way for their removal - I shall proceed to bring to view the consideration by which it will appear, that except the cases that wil be excepted, an interview of this sort is essential to the several purposes of justice: so compleatly and so manifestly essential, that from this circumstance alone, were all other proofs [...ing?] it would be but too manifest, that historically speaking there is not any European or Europe-taught country, in which the fulfilling the true and acknowledged ends of justice, has been the real object and final course of action of those by whom /professional men by whose/ judicial powers have been exercised under the name of justice.

Nor yet in perhaps /Nor on the other hand/ any of these countries, certainly not in England have the instances in which their only [...?] and rational plan /mode/ has been adopted, been by any means so few[?], as the act[?] to take compleatly away all pretence for regarding the arrangement as visionary confirming as they do the conclusions of just theory, by as satisfactory a testimony as ever was afforded by experience.

In the darkest[?] system of procedure /judicature/, during the sleep[?] or in spite of the /an/ ineffectual resistance on the part of the natural enemies of truth and justice, the light of truth will here and there break in /have broken in/, and by reflection will to an attentive and learned eye pr...y[/] /expose/ to view in its genuine foulness the den of Cains[?].