Wesley Corpus

Here you have to struggle with all the same difficul ties as before, and perhaps many new ones too. However, if you have money enough, you may succeed; but if that fails, your cause is gone. Without money, you can have no more law; poverty alone utterly shuts out justice. But “cannot an honest Attorney procure me justice?” An honest Attorney ! Where will you find one? Of those who are called exceeding honest Attorneys, who is there that makes any scruple,-- (1) To promote and encourage needless suits, if not unjust Ones too : (2.) To defend a bad cause, knowing it so to be,-- By making a demur, and then withdrawing it; By pleading some false plea, to the plaintiff’s declaration; By putting in an evasive answer to his bill; By protracting the suit, if possible, till the plaintiff is ruined: (3.) To carry a cause not amounting to ten shillings into Westminster-Hall, by laying it in his declaration as above forty: (4.) To delay his own client's suit knowingly and wilfully, in order to gain more thereby: (5.) To draw himself the pleadings or conveyances of his client, instead of giving them to be drawn by able Counsel: (6) To charge his client with the fees which should have been given to such Counsel, although they were not given: (7.) To charge for drawing fair copies, where none were drawn : (8.) To charge fees for expedition given to clerks, when not one farthing has been given them: (9.) To send his clerk a journey (longer or shorter) to do business with or for different persons; and to charge the horse hire and expense of that journey to every person severally: (10.) To send his clerk to Westminster, on the business of ten (it may be) or twenty persons, and to charge each of these twenty for his attendance, as if he had been sent on account of one only : (11.) To charge his own attendance in like manner: And, (12.) To fill up his bill with attendances, fees, and term fees, though his client is no whit forwarder in his cause ? This is he that is called an honest Attorney ! How much homester is a pickpocket! But there is a Magistrate whose peculiar office it is to redress the injured and oppressed.