094-279v]

24 Jan y 1807

C3 Lett

[...?]6.7.8.9. Juries

There are some causes a great deal too short, too simple for Juries. I do not mean that the time they occupy /in/ at the trial that is in the collection of evidence is too short for the end[?] of judicature, but that the cause being capable of receiving its decision at the very first making (between the parties on which occasion the presence of a Jury could not be made to answer its useful purpose, the effect of submitting it to a Jury is the production of so much factitious delay, vexation and expence, without any other advantage in respect of security against misdecision, then what will be found to attach in a superior degree to the case [...?] it is only in the way of Appeal that the cause is refound[?] to this species of judicature.

In this predicament stand the vast majority of causes: viz.: even of the causes that under the established systematical denial of justice actually taken place; much more of the bar /bars/ by which the great majority of the people are excluded from the protection of the law in civil cases were removed.

That the causes thus circumstanced form a vast majority may be seen by an observation made /in the instance/ of the proportionable number of causes that come before /cognizable by/ the English Courts of Conscience, a number that altogether out of the reach of calculation: without rationing those which come under the cognizance of Justices of the Peace, sitting out of General Session - a multitude altogether out of the reach of calculation.

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