8 Feb y 1808

Power Se

IV. Days of sitting

No: the arrangement will not do /[...?]/. the ends of justice, the interest of the lowest[?] [...?], yes: but not the interest, at the repose of these honourable and learned Ministers and Guardians of Justice. Having near half the year pure holyday time binds two holidays out of every seven in working time, so far from giving up any part of their repose /applying to the business more of their time than at present/, their plan is - not to apply to the business more than half the time they apply to it at present. The Chambers /two judicatories/ if two, are to sit alternately; in each of them, the Judges sitting half the time they apply to at present.

A security[?] to the evenday[?] labours under a [...?] of that protean[?] article: and thus is the occasion they lay hold of for doubling the quantity consumed in [...?].

The form in which this determination is expressed is not less observation-worthy than the substance.

To a declaration of any sort, of art of the will be it an art of the understanding [...?], order, assertion, the indirect form the form of assumption /implicit parenthetical/ gives a degree of force of which the direct form is incapable. Impossibility moreover oppozes[?] to any proposition a bar in impasses[?] /against/ of which the direct[?] form of reasoning is as a straw against a stone wall. To give force to the expression of will here exhibited /brought out/, lock[?] these [...?] powers are employed /called on/. That, as the Chambers are only to sit, and indeed can only sit alternately (say the learned memorialists in their fourth article) and then came their [...?] and conclusions.