30 June 1807

Letter V

Recapitulation

4. Whatever be the number of Appeals as will not be stopped by the proposed Chamber of Review, but will come up to the House notwithstanding, upon all this number the additional quantity of delay, expence and vexation thus produced will constitute a certain mischief to be set against whatever benefit if any may come to be produced, or the score of such parts to which it may happen to be stopped.

5. The expence in additional Salaries, with the attendant encrease of ministerial patronage and influence, constitute such a head of objection, such as, though of itself not sufficient to outweigh a clear and manifest benefit, referable to the ends of justice, presents an indisputable title to be put into the scale of disadvantage; and supposing the other advantages and disadvantages in equilibrio[?], would surely suffice to turn the scale.