[094-149v]

28 Jan y 1807

Omitt for the present or for ever

Not to be inserted in Scotch Reform

Letter V

What makes /gives to/ the history of this species of vermin its great importance, is the unlimited multtitude to which in a favourable sort and with the benefit of good nursing the number of them is capable of swelling.

The number of bonâ fide suits is a limited number, uniform in its magnitude capable of being swelled indeed by imperfections in the substantive branch of the law, but so far from being [...?] /[...?]/, restrained and diminished by delay vexation and expence. And by the adjective branch of the law, when ever it has been so wronged as to give /afford harbour/ reception to the malâ fide suitor the number of malâ fide suits that may thus be bred passes all calculation. In the single article of the Exchequer Chamber, Your Lordship has seen a hundred malâ fide suits for one bonâ fide one: or rather, to speak correctly 100 in which it was certain /matter of certainty/ that the defnedant was in ,alâ fode, for one in which his being in bonâ fide was not imposible.