1822 Oct¼r. 3¼d¼.

Tripoli © Account of

?.5. Religious Establishment.

Notaries accessors

Deperition of necessary evidence is conclusive.

Good, it may be said, good perhaps in some such extraordinary cases, but what shall we say of it in ordinary ones? Should we not call it mere ex©parte evidence? In this way, whether it be in penal cases or in civil cases, but more particularly in civil cases, might not evidence be manufactured in a most untrustworthy and deceptious shape, and give effect to the most nefarious designs. © Yes certainly, if it were regarded as conclusive which however, there seems to be little danger of its being on any occasion in any place. Yes, but too probably if in Tripoli the Examination were conducted in a no more apt manner than in a London Examiner's office under the auspices of English Equity. In a more unapt manner it could not be conducted even at Paris or Constantinople. At Tripoli, It is conducted in a different, and therefore in a more apt manner.

Assessors on these occasions to the Notary are © Witnesses, 40 in number, chosen it is said out of the men of best repute in the parish.¼+ At the worst, they could not be chosen upon a worse principle than an English Jury, taken by /with/ choice under the pretence of chance by an English Master of the Crown Office, dependent on the Minister by a revocable Sinecure, as well as on another dependent creature of the Monarch, in the shape of a Chief Justice against whose corruption they are to afford security: or a French Jury, creatures of the official creature to whose corruptions they are to oppose a check.

¼+Quere © by whom chosen © and what the qualification?