[...?] Jan y 1808

Appeals

3. Interest allowed

In demonstration, I have said, the remedy is rendered as efficient and even as sharp as possible.

Not only simple interest but compound interest may if such be the pleasure /will/ of the judicatory be allowed. In appearance, how indeed is energy to the solace of the party wronged, to the affliction of the wrongdoer, interest is to harm[?] principal. This is perhaps /may be for aught I know/ the first instance in which the allowance of compound interest has receaved an express authority from the pen of an English legislator. [...?] to the extreme verge of justice, he cloaths himself in /on/ the garb even of a /usury/ [...?] griping usurer.

After the explanation already given - need it now be added? under the [...?] of the rigid moralist /avenging Judge/ lurks the artifice of the secret /to [...?] and confederate/ accomplice, giving protection and encouragement to the [...?] /pillage/, which he affects and pretends to reach[?]. Ten per Cent for avarice[?] at the interest with the five per Cent upon that five per cent - five per cent and a minute fraction in the shape of loss, when is the power[?] of the loss to restrain a man from making his 12, or his 15 of his 90 per cent interest, and that too compound interest for the same length of time?

When in a well found[?] ballance five poinds with the addition of a quarter of a pound outweigh [...?] pound then will this professed check upon injustice in the person of the outdone practice[?] of Judge and [...?] cease to be a shame one.