28 March 1808

Letter V

Powers to Session

Rotation

To the noble and learned Lord Chancellor under whose name the Bill comes forth, to the Lord Chancellor at any rate, howsoever it may have been in the /regard/ case of the penner of the Bill, the determination of the Lord President with the determination of two others out of the 15 Judges for its support, was fully known, for with all [...?] solemnity and in [...?] there are four[?], it had been notified: and it is [...?] that notice thus repeatedly given that this one of the ends of justice would continue to be as it has been hitherto trodden under foot, that the author of the Bill does as much as in [...?] has to enable and empower those declared [...?] to persevere in such their declared contempt of this end of justice.

If it were still possible that the sort of regard [...?] by the penner of the Bill for the end of justice in question could remain subject to doubt two words - inserted as it were in the exuberance of grace and favour and lest the determination to persevere /the adherence given to the determination of persevering/ in the contempt of this end of justice should not be strict enough - two words, the word "Years" and the word "Sessions", would be sufficient to clear away all doubts ever in the mind[?] the most [...?] /abundant/ in that sort of produce. Weeks of repose, yes: even months of repose, let ever that [...?] be allowed to be necessary, to recruit[?] a man after the fatigue of lolling upon cushions. But "Sessions"? portions of [...?] of four months length - "Sessions" - ""Years" too and those too in the plural number? - what shall we say of the sort of regard there[?] manifested for the ends of justice?