1 March 1808

Letter VI

Omissa & Facienda

II. No Exclusion

If one species /if it were of the nature/ of interest more than another to afford a [...?] ground for the exclusion of evidence, it would be that sort of evidence whatever it were, the seductive force of which were apt to be least obvious to those in whom it depended[?] /belonged/ to, judging and[?] for the force of which in [...?] they would on that account be least[?] upon their ground, and less apt to make due allowance for it, in like[?] making the trustworthiness of the testimony.

But under English jurisprudence - the only species of interest by which the exclusionary effect is produced, is pecuniary interest, the sort of interest of the force of which it is least likely /possible/ that any man should fail of being duly sensible.