7 June 1810

Influence

Ch. Mischief

§.5. 1 Partners in abuse

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Of this community of sinister interest such is the strength, as to be capable of bursting the bounds even of party attachment.

Thus if {there be any sinister interest possessed in common by the profession of the law, /if abuse in any shape be supposed to have place any where in the texture of the profession of the law/ by those who […?] in the character of fee-fed Advocates or fee-fed Judges behold and feel their comforts issuing out of and rising and falling with the torments which through the instrumentality of factitious uncertainty, delay, vexation and expence are inflicted on all the other classes in the character of clients suitors, or of those who if they had /possess/ wherewithal to purchase their chance for justice would have become suitors, in a band /trust/ of ministers linked together may be seen a set of men of whom /in whose instance/ it ought to be expected /a constant expected/ that they hold themselves in constant readiness to flock together for the defence of abuse, not only in that particular shape in which a special profit results /accrues/ /flows/ from it immediately to themselves, but on account of the mischief done in the way of precedent to their interest by /in/ every instance in which abuse in any shape receives correction, and in consideration of the assistance they may look /expect/ to receive in return for the constant protection of abuse in that particular /special/ shape in which they possess their special interest.