6 Apr. 1808

Letter V

Ch 3. [...?]

'. Another, if not the /and as it should seem/ the main object and supposed benefit of the regulations above reported, seems to have been in the learned scribes view of the matter to have been, the exonerating the time of the House of Lords of the intolerable part of the burthen which at present presses upon it. In the view /eyes/ of they the learned scribes [...?] /[...?]/ and guides such was the view taken of the efficacy of the regulations in question in ths character as to have produced a declared "persuasion, that supposing this regulation established, the number of appeals (of all sorts from all these [...?]!) could soon cease" not only to be "a grievance to the subject", but to be "a burthen to the House of Lords."

As to this matter, as to such part of the supposed[?] regulations not [...?] in the introduction of appeals from interlocutors without leave of the Judges to whom injustice is imputed, its efficacy appears in some degree indeed not improbable, but in that same degree, and for the reasons just given, undesirable. for that bonâ fide appeals, and a no considerable proportion /number and/ weight may come to be prevented by it, seems but too probable.

As to every other part of the proposed string[?] of reputation the utter inefficacy of it in this point of view as against the mischief here in question will be as clear, as its [...?] efficacy will be in[?] the other point of view /as against the other mischief/: the neat or portion of neat profit derivable from the wrong I mean the delay derivable from the groundless and malâ fide appeal being as charity[?] left in some states of the account, as it is taken away in others.