14 Jan y 1807

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Jury

Be this as it may, it is through the medium /this channel/ of this result, if at all, that any thing that will bear the name of justice, any thing capable of being supported in the character of justice - can be done. How then is natural procedure recurred to after all; recurred to, because technical procedure, with the benefit of this showy /fine/ and glittering piece of mechanism, is found incompetent to the work /incapable of doing the business/.

After the satisfaction thus /so/ constantly manifested at the turn thus given to the cause /seeing the cause like this here/ at secrecy[?] justice pursued through this channel /road/, would it be possible for them to state /speak of it/ /represent/ it as being a bad one? they could not expect to find hearers if they did: even Blackstone, their own Blackstone, speaks of it as a good one.

And yet though so different from their own technical channels they not only speak but think of it with complacency - Why? because as they have managed it, it comes /is resorted to/ after, and not in lieu of their own technical ones, it gives encrease, not diminution, to the quantity of business: to the demand made upon them for their assistance /learned and well paid labours/. In fact /truth/ it is the only good road: they acknowledge it to be /by their own acknowledgement it is/ a good one: but by means of the good entertainment and the exquisite justice which according to their advertisements /puffs/ is not to be had /found/ any where but in the Jury Box, they have so managed matters, that the Jury-Box of which they keep the key, forms a sort of turnpike to that only good road. Through this turnpike, at the end of the long and circuitous and thorny and dangerous, and [...?] road that leads to it, travellers are half-inveighed half compelled to pass, in order to get into the good road, instead of striking into it at once.