27 Jan y 1808

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A native having but personal connections in the country, and those connections their particular and separate interests, with the prejudices that may have been begotten and fostered by those sinister interests would in the execution of such a work be[?] exposed to the temptation of consulting /favouring/ to the prejudice of the general interest of the whole community, those particular interests and prejudices, or at any rate, what comers to much the same thing, to the suspicion of it.

To speak mor particularly /In particular for example/ - Among natives no men would think of engaging in such a task /a task of this sort would never be undertaken for by any man/ , who was not a professionally bred lawyer: viewing consequently in that work his most intimate associates and familiae friends. But the interest of lawyers of all descriptions in the character of suitors and persons liable to become suitors on the other hand being directly opposite, it would be impossible for him to serve /not in their ground as a faithful servant to/ the community at large without noting with proportionable efficacy /efficiency/ in the character of an adversary to those with whom on the supposition no question has been passed and the [...?] part and naturally wishes to continue to pass his life /the remainder of his days/.

Unembarrassed by any such ties, a foreigner in his endeavours to render /serve/ himself unfit to the community in question in this law[?] of service, would have no such sacrifices to make.