4 Aug 1812

Evidence Introd

Introd

Ch. 26. Imprisonment for debt

Improbity open[?] distinction between trader & non-trader &c.

In the production of this improbity and this misery [...?] /the daemon/ is not the only agent: the daemon of aristocratical tyranny has claim to a large /no small/ share.

To the two evil sports in conjunction may be /are to be/ referred /the glory is due/ several corresponding and harmonizing distinctions: the distinction between non-trader and trader: corresponding distinction between insolvent and bankrupt: between insolvency the condition of the one, and bankruptcy the condition of the other. Never was technical jargon and false /shere/ hearsay employed to a viler purpose: never was fouler corruption covered by whitened sepulchres.