16 May 1807

Scotch Reform

Letter VI

Letter VI

V. Authoritative Plans

 Insist[?] higher

Yes: if all the existing Judges were in the habit of judging badly: and at the same time there were any distinct /clear/ and reasonable ground for expecting that with the proposed reinforcement /in the Chamber of Review the business /work of// judicature would be preformed any better.

But with submission my Lord, now that the documents are come in, I can find in them no ground for supposing that whatever be the standard of comparison the judgement of the superior /superordinate/ judicature, or the practice of former times in the same Court, misdecision (for delay vexation and expense belong to the system) misdecision the only mode of bad judicature to which the documents concerning which any evidence permits itself has really become frequent.