15 Feb y 1808

IV. Appeal vice Sufficient

In the Court of Justiciary, sitting or rather riding on the Circuit - one of [...?] ambulatory judicatories in /out of/ which justice is scattered among suitors as /decisions are thrown out of the window like/ half time [...?] beggars as the great man is travelling past[?], those factitious delays are not made, forasmuch as for want of time and [...?] it is impossible they should be made.

If in the mode /course/ of Appeal pursued in the Bill Chamber there be any thing really conducive to any of the purposes of justice, the House unprovided as it is destitute as it is of a Bill Chamber, is an imperfect edifice, and a manufactory of delay, under that name and for that purpose a manufactory of delay ought to be added with all speed[?].

In the appellate jurisdiction given of the Court of Justiciary, the want /imperfection/ of a Bill Chamber may stand excused by the precipitation attached to ambulatory judicature, and abound for in some measure by extending to the /the extension given of/ faculty of appeal to suits which otherwise would have remained inevitably /unavowedly/ destitute of that advantage.

But the House of Lords not being upon wheels the want of a Bill Chamber attracted to that imperial judicatory can no otherwise be defended than by suppozing and assuming what will be found to be the truth, that the circumstances whereby the mode of procedure pursued in the Edinburgh Bill Chamber differ in this respect from the mode pursued in the superior appellate judicatory compose all together a mass of pure evil opposite to the several ends of justice.