12. To fill up his bill with _attendances_, _fees_, and _term-fees_, though his client is no whit ♦forwarder in his cause. ♦ “forward” replaced with “forwarder” per Errata This is he that is called an _honest attorney_! How much honester is a pick-pocket? But there is a magistrate whose peculiar office it is, to redress the injured and oppressed. Go then and make trial of this remedy; Go, and tell your case to the _Lord Chancellor_. Hold; you must go on regularly: you must tell him your case, _in form of law_, or not ♦at all. You must therefore _file a bill_ in chancery, and _retain_ a lawyer belonging to that court. “But ♠you have already spent all you have; you have _no money_.” Then I fear you will have _no justice_. You stumble at the threshold. If you have either lost or spent all, your cause is naught: it will not even come to a hearing. So, if the oppressor has secured all that you had, he is as safe as if you was under the earth. ♦ “at” inserted per Errata ♠ “ye” replaced with “you” per Errata * 21. Now what an amazing thing is this! The very _greatness_ of the villainy makes it beyond _redress_!――――But suppose he that is opprest, has some substance left, and can go through all the courts of justice, what parallel can we find among _Jews_, _Turks_, or _Heathens_, for either the delays or the expence attending it? With regard to the former, how monstrous is it, that in a suit relating to that inheritance, which is to furnish you and your family with food and raiment, you must wait month after month, perhaps year after year, before it is determined, whether it be yours or not? And what are you to _eat_, or to _wear_ in the mean time? Of that the court takes no cognizance! Is not this very _delay_, (suppose there were no other grievance attending the _English_ course of law) wrong beyond all expression? Contrary to all sense, reason, justice and equity? A _capital_ cause is tried in one day, and finally decided at once. And, _is the life_ less than _meat_? _Or the body_ of less concern _than raiment_? What a shameless mockery of justice then, is this putting off _pecuniary_ causes from term to term, yea, from year to year. * With regard to the latter. A man has wronged me of a hundred pounds. I appeal to a judge for the recovery of it. How astonishing is it, that this judge himself cannot give me what is my right, and what evidently appears so to be, unless I first give, perhaps one half of the sum, to men I never saw before in my life!