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28 March 1808 Letter V Power
28 March 1808

Letter V

Power to Session

Rotation

Time for relaxation being, though physically speaking impossible to be allowed in the one case, capable of being allowed without difficulty in the other, it was in this instance, /and it should seem with unimpeachable propriety/ allowed accordingly: allowed with as small an expenditure of public money as could have been allotted to the purpose: to each judicatory /above //beyond// the constantly necessary [...?]/ one [...?] Judge, and but one.

In the Act for the establishment of these judicatories /by which these judicatories/ I behold with delight and exaltation an /one/ instance in which the ends of justice , in general and dispatch of business, [...?] avoidance of delay in particular were the objects to which the [...?] of the legislator was really and without grimace directed. If any one will help me to [...?] hypothesis, by which, without running into palpable contradiction, it may be in my power to attribute /ascribe/ the same view and [...?] to the learned penner of the Bill, my sincere thanks shall /are/ be at his service. I could not which[?] manufacturing factitious delay by wholesale and devising measures for fastening it like a millstone [...?] in a manner never to be detached, about the neck of justice. Seeing one object compleatly accomplished by one man, by measures placably and undeniably directed to that end /and manifestly adequate to it/, I can not /know not how to/ say of any other man, nay though he were a Lord Chancellor /the head of the law/ and an Archbishop of Canterbury in one, that I believe his views to have been directed to the same end, perceiving /seeing/ at the same time less measures taking a direction exactly opposite.
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