3 Jan y 1807

Scotch Reform │ │ To L d Grenville

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Causes mostly short

From the number of causes actually gone through each in a fragment of a day viz: in 1/│ │ th of a day in the Birmingham Court as may learn the quantity of time really necessary every where for the completion of a cause in suits of the description as those which are permitted to come before that one of the │ │ Courts of Conscience, or as in Scotland they are termed Small Debt Courts.

By comparing that part of the proportion of England 2,...,... to which enjoys the benefit of those Courts is imported[?] with the remainder 6,...,... to which it is denied, we may learn, within a comparatively inconsiderable distance of the truth, the number representing the degree in which for want of those Courts of Justice is denied, and its proportion to the number representing the cases in which it is not denied but administered.

In the number of Writs annually issued out of these Courts, meaning[?] the sort of Writs /the Writ/ from each of which a cause takes its commencement, we may see the number of instances (in which denial of justice does not take place) in which no such evil takes place as that which comes exactly /strictly/ under the description of a denial of justice.