21 Feb y 1808

on L d Eldon's Bill

Letter V II. Appeals

Delay shop [...?]

This is not all: what is believed is still worse. There is a show of giving interest: always understood the /meaning always the always/ inadequate allowance given /made/ under that tenure[?].

By a strange anomaly, to take his chance for it /that part of his due/, a man is sent to a third /yet another last[?]/ judicatory, neither the [...?] the immediate judicatory, nor the Appellate judicatory, but another which but in the strange[?] way has nothing to do with either. Immediate judicatory, the Kings Bench; appellate the Exchequer Chamber the last in which he /a man/ is to take his chance is neither the Exchequers Chambers, nor the Kings Bench, but the Exchequer: in which his claim to the interest[?] of the principal sum[?] /at the end of a [...?] arm[?]/ adjudged to have[?] by a judgment of the Kings Bench, confirmed by a d r[?] of the Exchequer Chambers because the subject of a distant cause, a motion cause (of which in [...?] Letter [...?].)

When [...?] from he Exchequer Chamber he is got into the Exchequer, he finds himself in a trap. There are cases in which in this way the man receives /the party wronged is permitted to receive/ the scrap of competition[?] thus held out to him; there are others in which he is not permitted to receive it. There are cases in which the wrongdoer is made to part with this fragment of the /item in the account of/ profit from his own wrong; there are cases in which he is not made to part with it /this imperfect justice in the shop[?] is not so much as pretended to be done/. In every instance in the instance of each individual cause whether in either of these shapes any thing under the semblance of justice is /shall be/ done depends - avowedly depends - upon the description of the [...?] Court. /+ Burrow[?] for [...?]/ So that before a lawsuit and without a lawsuit [...?] a partial /till a fresh lawsuit has been committed for the purpose and determined/ relief or an aggravation of the wrong will be the result of the application thus made for the pretended remedy, is among the things /points/ of law which it is /has been made/ impossible for man to know.