22 May 1807

Scotch Reform

(4)

1. On numbers? that give[?] up

2. On superiority[?] of leaving? the ground for that[?]

1 o or 2 o

Letter V

Letter V

VI Bona fide

There remains the 1 case out of 4, in which in the Court of Review the judgment pronounced in the Court immediately below (viz. the section of the Court of Session, is reversed or modified. As to this part of the present number of Appeals I see not or what just grounds the expectation of a defalcation of any part of it can rest, the undesirable result of denial of justice by exhaustion of purse or perseverance always excepted.

Arbitration made of a supposed superiority of appropriate aptitude on the part of the members of the proposed Review Chamber as compared with the members of the several proposed sections of the existing Court of Session there can be no ground for expecting that of the parcel now in question so much as a single one would be stopped by the decision of the Court above ad quam[?], pronounced in opposition to the decision of the Court below a quâ[?]. Here is Court against Court: the ballance even: while there[?] remains a yet ulterior Court to recurr to, is it in human nature that the recourse should not be made?