13 Jan y 1807

Appeal &c

By appeal, taken in the largest sense of the word, the cause is ultimately as for the time at least, taken out of the hands of the primary Judge: if to any good, it might be, in the way of remedy to /against/ some misconduct, the result of some unfitness, on the part of the Judge.

This unfitness if it exists will shew itself in one or other of two shapes: partiality, or unskilfulness. partiality, the result of an imperfection in the moral part, unskilfulness the result of an imperfection in the intellectual part, of his frame.

Suppose the Judge all-perfect, no sufficient reason, not so much as any good reason for appeal can be found.