24 April 1807

A6 (6)

Letter V

Inadequate compensation

3. Appeal vice Advocation

6 continued

To the system thus described nothing worse can be objected than its being groundless: inconsistent it is not. Now then what is the policy pursued by the proposed measure? It refuses the remedy against delay where the price to be paid for it by diminution of the security against misdecision is less: it reserves the remedy for the cases in which the price thus paid for it is greater. It refuses the dispatch where the sum risked by it is no more than £50: it grants the dispatch, it applies this dangerous remedy when the sum risked is any thing above the £50: where the amount of the risk has no bounds.