26 Dec r 1806

Scotch Reform To L d Grenville + (1

Resolut. 14

Costs

 Remark[?] paragraph 3. adjust to para 31

Resolution 14. That such costs be allowed by this House in cases of Appeal as may more effectively and to the discouragment of frivolous and vexatious Appeals.

More false views, my Lord, natural consequences /results/ of the technical /fee-gathering/ system - more in[...?] and inefficient, or rather [...?] efficient expedients in consequence.

Vexatious Appeals, in effect yes: in as far as all unjust /being unjust, thus/ some are vexatious: in design, no: nor yet frivolous: it is not in any such shape that the great birth of the mischief likely to flow from Appeals is likely to cloath itself. [...?] Appeals, unjust Appeals produced by the influence /agency/ of sinister interest these are the Appeals from which the great birth of the mischief running in this channel takes its rise. Judges, under the impulse of the similar interest given to them by the fee-gathering system, have held out encouragment to malâ fide defendants /suitors/, to become Appellants, giving them, in the manner I hear submitted /[...?] submitting/ to your Lordship, a clear interest in, a neat profit on condition of, so doing: defendants, yielding to the temptation, embrace /accept/ the mistake[?], and the consequences are - in England Writs of Error for more delay, [...?] the Exchequer Chamber, and so on to the House of Lords: in Scotland, applications for Bills of [...?] and Suspension, [...?] Petitions with removals in other forms, from the Outer to the Inner House, (not to speak of occasional vibrations,) and so on Appeals from the Inner House to the House of Lords. Give us ,20 to divide among us, and more says the Custor [...?] and his reverend Colleagues - not in words, indeed but in acts and deeds which form a source so steeped[?] in fiction are [...?] more to be depended upon /somewhat more turstworthy and impressive/ - give us our ,20, we give you from a year to 12 year's interest of the Plaintiff's money - and the difference is all your own.