There are as many sorts of motives as there are of pains and pleasures put together. With here and there a [...?] exception, there is not a motive to the action of which every human being whatever, male and female, old and young, is not exposed. But to the action /the sinister and seductive actions/ of this or that species of motive, this or that individual may by exposure /observation/ of the disposition it has given birth to, be known to stand more particularly exposed.

3 May 1803 at Dublin James Lawless, Gardener, was convicted of an assault on a child not 14 years old, with intent to commit a rape. It was the known weakness of the defendant's character /disposition/ in this respect that at the known time /in the first instance that it/ saved the honour of the child from becoming a victim to his incontinence, afforded the /gave birth to the direct/ evidence by which his criminality was established. She had been sent on an errand to his garden. He inveigled her into a lumber-room that had no communication outward. Hearing where she was some friends of her mothers, mounted the garden wall and by their outcries compelled her appearance; she presented herself in a state of disorder that bespoke the danger she had escaped.

The opinion if conveyed in the charge of a general testimony concurring general character, would have been /stood/ exposed to the imputation of temerity or calumny: but by the measures taken in consequence the severity of it was proved by the measures taken in consequence, and /it was [...?] of the imputation of temerity/ by the conformation it received from the witness to whom the violence had it been offered.