Jan y 1807

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Letter II[?]

To be sure we have no right to do this, Parliament having forbidden us in express terms: /be[?] later cognizance of any such criminal ones:/

but you will say the ma has committed a crime, and we will take your word for it: and to Jail he shall go for it: to be sure here is a he[?] [...?], but Parliament does not sit now: perhaps may never sit again, and if it does, will not know any thing about the matter: down then with your money, and to Jail the felow goes: and this being what the Common Pleas can not do for you, ours you see is not only a good shop for you prupose, but the only one.

Being thus left without custom, the Court of Common Pleas took a leaf out of the same book: I mean the book of lies: and such, as between these two Courts, being the subject, viz. money: in that instnace such was the Course /track/, and effect, and benefit of competition.