2 Aug 1812

Evidence Introd

Introd

Ch. 26. Imprisonment for debt

'.5. End Lawyers profit

If within the same walls within which the blameless debtor finds a plan of his on the bed or stretched on the floor without so much as the bed of wretchedness, the fraudulent /[...?]/ debtor has a life of ease and plenty it is because it is the interest of Judges that he who comes thither has other mens money in his pocket should lead that life. Whether it be /operate/ in the shape of fees received by his own hand whether it be in the shape of patronage that is in other words fees received by the hands of a woman that it operates, the force and effect of sinister interest is still the same, with only this difference that received by the hands of a woman a hundred pounds worth of a mass of fees to a given amount the value is sometimes though not always less when received by the hand /by the patron through/ the hand of a woman than when received immediately into his own. Under the name of rent, or under some other name the comforts enjoyed in a Jail by a /the/ dishonest debtor, are bought with the money of the injured creditor, bought of the Jailer, and the Jailer is nominated by some Judge and it is by some Judge that the Jailer is placed /stationed/ in this his profitable post.