10 Feb y 1807

Letter IV

Resolut. 6.7.8.9

Juries

After 3. denial of justice

The price paid by the people in different shapes for whatsoever support may be supposed to be afforded by learned gentlemen to the law and constitution being thus prosecuted in a manner which I hope will be found tolerably clear and palpable[?], it [...?] with them if it be to their honour, to present /bring to view/ in a shape equally clear and palpable the service for which that price is paid.

In speaking of learned gentlemen, I mean on this occasion, those [...?] and them only who are of the professional branch of the partnership: it is on that branch and that alone that any declination /decline/ of remuneration and prosperity need be suffered to be produced by the resolution to any [...?] extent of natural to technical /of the existing natural to the existing/ system of procedure. As to the higher branch, there is our difficulty, other than the collateral difficulty of finding the money in helping the distribution after[?] to the present level: there is no other difficulty, of need be in raising it. Official fees, whatsoever be their amount are capable of being converted into Inlarged professional fees already /alone/ incapable.

My Lord I have no quarrel with learned gentlemen, any more than M r /[...?] D r Jenner/ had with physicians surgeons and apothecaries. It is because I find them in my way, that is in the way of the people's welfare - it is for that cause only, and to the extent of its influence only that I would see them and their welfare /[...?] the superfluity of their prosperity/ removed out of the way of [...?].