PRIVATE

27 Feb y 1807

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Scotch Reform (2

Letter

Letter V

Resolut. 10.11.12.13.14

Resolutions 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9 form one group of connected arrangement: the five next ensuing, 10 th, 11, 12, 13, and 14 form another such group.

Of these five Resolutions, the 10 th has for its professed object the abbreviation of the course pursued on the occasion of the removal of a cause from a lower Court to a higher: the 11 th, 12 th, 13 th and 14 th have for their principal object the ridding the House of Lords of a portion of the mass of causes at present brought into that supreme Court of appellate Judicature from Scotland, and by that means easing the suitors of that one as well as of the two other of the three kingdoms of a proportionate part of the burthen in the shape of delay with which they are at present loaded, by the insufficiency of the quantity of time capable of being applied by that branch of the sovereign body to the purpose of such its appellate judicature.