1819 July 4

Defence of | | against Ed. gh Review

II Indirect attacks

5. Judica-teipsum principle

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5. Judica teipsum principle: alias the self-judging principle.

In my character of Defender of the people, it was my interest that the abuse thus denominated, and thus for the first time named should be placed /made to stand/ in the clearest and strongest light, and to that end that there should be a name by which it might upon every occasion be spoken of

But in the character of Defender of the Whigs, and rather than they /than his Clients/ should not be sufficiently defended, Defender of the Tories likewise it was the Reviewers interest that this same abuse together with all other abuses in which the Tories and thence the Whigs find /behold/ their profit, should be locked[?] up /continua[?]/ and kept out of sight as effectually and as long as possible.

It is by means and virtue of this principle, that in the highest and the most important in name and pretence the most responsible office whatsoever be[?] a man’s misdeeds, impunity is sure: his judges are his confederates /associates in transgression/ men who are bound to /linked with/ him by the ties not only of self regarding interest but of sympathy.

In the judicial department it has two branches: that by virtue of which a man is judge in a cause actually /particularly and strictly/ his own: and that in virtue of which he who in a cause between others is judge in the first instance, is preceding and leading Judge in the 2 d and last instance.