15 March 1808

Letter

§.6. Reasons

Ends of Justice

[...?] this attached to both sides destructive[?] when delay is advantagious

hinted at but posted[?] off.

Looking in like manner at the evils correspondent to the first mentioned of the two groupes of negative ends of judicial procedure, viz. imposition of undue obligations corresponding and inseparably produced by administration of satisfaction where undue, imposition of undue obligations corresponding to and produced by collation of rights where undue, and imposition of undue obligations whether in the active or in the passive faculties of the individual on the score and in the name of punishment, we shall find, that the only side to the prejudice of which any article in the knot of evils correspondent to this groupe of negative ends of judicature can operate.

Looking in like manner on the evils correspondent to the last mentioned of the two groupes of negative ends, viz: vexation, expence, and delay, we shall find them not only overhanging the course of judicial procedure throughout its whole extent but throughout that whole extent inflicting its pressure upon the parties on both sides of that course.