21 Sept 1803

Evidence

Instructions

Considerations

1. Interest in general

Situations

Opposition

All things considered it will be found that from the countenance turn and turn of a man's answers, indications much more instructive will generally be obtainable in regard to the state of his affections considered as liable to operate on his evidence as a cause of bias, than from any such superficial mask as can be afforded by any exterior relation or connection domestic or civil, natural or acquired with all the interests attached: and that although these exterior influencing circumstance /the influence/ ought never to be overlooked, yet neither ought it ever to be explicitly relied upon, as an indication capable of superseding the occasion /demand/ for looking out for such ulterior lights as may be afforded /deducible/ from the individual /particular/ circumstances on each individual cause.