Jan y 1807

Omitt or Postpone 5

1 Proposition

Letter IV

Resolut. 6,7,8,9

Jury

Lawyers fond of Juries

I have stated as plainly as was in my power the causes of my own attachment to the mode of Jury judicature: the causes of that attachment, and therein the limits set to it. I will now by your Lordship's indulgence which I state with equal plainness /simplicity/, the causes of that attachment which learned Lords and gentlemen are never tired of manufacturing[?] towards it.

Thus it is, my Lord, that so far as learned Lords and gentlemen are concerned the causes of their attachment to this [...?] of English liberty, are comprizable[?] in the two words profit and ease: so far as these two agreeable circumstances or either of them accompany it, so far does their attachment /passion/ cleave to it: where both desert it, that is when[?] is rival made[?] possessed of the same charms presents itself, Jury trial shelf without any complaint on their part, is laid upon the shelf.

The competition (your Lordship sees) is between Jury trial in the first instance, and Natural Procedure, with Jury trial, if necessary afterwards.

I know[?] then[?] /First/ as to profit - Jury trial in the first instance, no suit without its profits: and these, as every body knows - not small ones. Natural Procedure in the first instnace, in a vast majority of the number of individual suits, no lawyer's profit at all, at least none for Advocates, then and there, the deman perhaps for the assistance of an Attorney given by a part of a day's attendance; but in the majority of individual instances, not even that.