4 April 1804

Evidence

Forthcomingness

Ch. 6. Appearance

§ 3. Cases for extraordinary

3. Sympathy of affection, from what ever cause derived: sympathy to wit with the individual whose interests would be prejudiced by the testimony, if delivered. The domestic relationship - the relation of husband and wife, husband; parent, child; brother, sister; presents the most obvious source. But if, without any such physical bind of connection, friendship, pure friendship, could send a Theseus to the infernal regions for the deliverance of his friend, more surely might it engage any common person to cross a river or some less apparent boundary, and pay a visit to some neighbouring /adjacent/ country, which perhaps he might have already had it in contemplation to visit on some other score.

From these examples it is already sufficiently apparent, that cases will every now and then present themselves, in which for securing the sort of service due on this score to justice, the strongest measures that can be taken can not never be too strong.