26 Octr 1807

Eldon's Bill

'.11

Procedure the same

Instead of presenting a friendly competition /contention/ in that straight and simple course, what is it they have done?

Travelling hand in hand in pursuit of those sinister ends which have already been /in the course of this work have/ so often been pointed out the maximum of profit combined with the maximum of care, they have by their harmonious exertions given birth to that system of elaborate /well-elaborated/ and but too successful iniquity of which the principal features have also been delineated /sketched out/. +See Lett. V under the head of Devices

Not that of competition there has been any want /deficiency/: but to what object has it been directed? Preserving each of the Courts in its own system those features by which the sinister ends common to them all were /are/ served, the subject of the competition which of them by unnecessary encroachments upon the liberty of the subject in the station[?] of the Defendant, shall /should/ offer the most tempting advantages to instances in the character of plaintiff /station of Plaintiff/.

By (faithful argument and) unbroken agreement and confederacy and uninterrupted co-operation a system having been thus formed corrupt in all its parts corrupt from beginning to end, disastrous to the people in the character of suitors, favourable only to that omnipotent brotherhood /fraternity/ by whom and consequently for whom it was organised, the field of competition has been scanty in the extreme and the utmost advantages ever derived or derivable from it by /to/ the suitors, proportionately minute.

Not only has so far as system is concerned - not only has it in that quarter been unable to render any effectual service to the interests of justice, but even as between individuals and individuals acting under the same system its inefficacy has been in many instances as conspicuous, as its efficacy has in the aggregate of all instances been dubious

 Point to Eldon delays notwithstanding the competition of the Exchequer.