[...?] Jan y 1808

[...?] Appeals

3. In the 16 th section is continued what regards the allowance of interest.

To enable the wrongdoer to reap a profit from his own wrong has been already stated being under the fee-gathering system as the natural interest and real object of the Judge. For a whole /an entire/ century in Scotch causes, and /is[?]/ for several centuries on English causes /ones/, the profit from this arrangment had been shared without disturbance and without reduction between the co-partners, the wrongdoer and the his protectors. The such[?] money of the season had at length raise a storm, in the course of which prudence had supported the necessity of throwing[?] ones[/] board a part of the cargo /profit/, in order to save /for the preservation of/ the rot[?]. What remained was to render the sacrifice as small / in reality/ in reality, and at the same time for the satisfaction of the crew, in appearance as considerable/ great/ as possible.

The first of these objects was provided for /In perseverance of the first of these objects //first of these designs/, a [...?] ways to try[?] confusing the allowance in all cases to the utmost rate that could be understood to be comprized under the term interest viz. 5 per cent: 2. by requiring a pristine[?] execution in the point of the [...?] as a condition sin quâ non, to the [...?] of even the inadequate allowance.