/25[?]/1 June 1807

Scotch Reform To L d Grenville

Letter V

II. Proper Remedies

The importance of this object in the eyes of Judge and C o may be judged of by the risk they were content to run rather than give up the pursuit of it.

By Acts of Parliament in great number and variety, under the notion of preventing malâ fide defence, and thereby removing the obstacle to bonâ fide pursuit, in the event of judgment in favour of the plaintiff, the burthen of extra costs have been imposed, that is endeavoured to be imposed on the Defendant: in some instances, the allowance to be made under the name of costs has been directed to be doubled; in others, trebled.

By Judge and C o how has this engagement been fulfilled? how has this direction been fulfilled? When the order is to give double costs what they give or profess to give is single costs, with half single costs, and no more: where the order is to give treble costs, what they give or profess to give is single costs, with half single costs, and a quarter of single costs, and no more:- not so much as double costs.