29 Apr 1807

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Lwyers judged

Letter 1.

It is your interest that the law, by which your fate is disposed[?] of - the law by /rule by/ which at your [...?] you are bound to confirm all your actions - should be in a state of a perfect notoreity and certainty, as possible.

It is your interest, that in your quality of subjects - of suitors - of individuals exposed to the misfortune of becoming /finding themselves in the condition of/ litigants, complicated burthen of delay, vexation and expence, pressing on that disasterous[?] /[...?]/ condition in life should be as light /as little [...?]/ as possible.

Those propositions surely need no proof.

It follows therefore that the interests of the lawyers - (and I speak all along of both classes) in regard to these essential points are in direct opposition to your interests: and that the more clearly it is proved /shown/, that it is for your interests that both those great tasks /grand operations/, be accomplished, the more certain it is rendered: that the accomplishment of them will find in the whole body of the lawyers its determined and inexorable opposers /opponents/.