10 June 1804

Procedure (3)

Ch Basis

Turkish

Immediately after comes the above cited passage from which you are to understand that the justice you are made to buy is always good, in proportion to /as/ the price you pay for it is excessive. And lest you should suspect the accuracy /[...?]/ of the proportion /ratio/, before the chapter is at an end you are informed once more that "formalities (what he understands by formalities is already understood) are a [...?] sort of thing that in every community go on increasing in the exact ration of the regard paid in it, to the honour, the property, the life and the liberty of its members." /+ib/

This is so true, that there is not a more certain[?] sign of disposition that "there is not a more certain proof /sign/ of a mans being a despot in his heart, than that of his harbouring a wish to make the laws more simpler Witness Caesar Cromwell and the rest of them /so many others/. /+ib/