1821. Novr. 28. Codification Offer. '.8 Foreigner best. The most corrupt men

on earth are the [...?] [...?] English Judges: if not corrupt to those who by

corruption /[...?]/ are[?] what[?] [...?] the [...?] [...?]

been in the habit of seeing themselves made: here then came in that work not of

choice but of necessity - real or supposed. Under this necessity, to save men as

far as may be from being put to that use, cords are provided for his hands. But

the man thus made is a Sampson: and the cords provided are those by which, for a

time, Sampson was incommoded.

From all this, it seems sufficiently evident, that, from any adoption, however

extensive, given in the instance of that particular Constitutional Code, to a

Code, the original draught of which was composed by the hands of natives, it

follows not that, in the case of a suite of Codes, Penal, Civil, and

Constitutional, furnished each of them with an interwoven rationale, the

circumstance of the original draught's having had a foreigner for its author

would be the less likely, to give, to the acceptance of it on the part of other

nations, the superior facility above supposed.