[...?] 1808

Scotch Reform

Letter V

Letter V

Bonâ fide Appeals

In regard to /On the subject //Under the hand of/ delay vexation and expence will this be said? if not siad I suppose it must have at any rate been thought. It is not every cause wil it be said? that will be [...?] by the intermediate Court of Appeal at Edinburgh. Some after passing through that Court, will leap on to Westminster, to the House of Lords. But of the procedure before the Lords is more delatory expensive and vexatious it may be added than the procedure before the proposed Edinburgh Court of Appeal will be: and this to such a degree that the saving /burthen saved/ upon the causes added by these that leap on to Westminster.

This must naturally have been said: they must /[...?]/ naturally have even thought. But where is the ground for thinking so? Thus again comes the same demand for calculation, and the same absence of it

1 Actual average[?] delay in the House of Lords under the existing stagnation │ │ so much

2. Reputed average delay in the House of Lords supposing the superficial number of Scotch Appeals stopped at Edinburgh by the proposed Review[?] Chamber and the stagnation done away │ │ so much.

3. Expected average delay in the proposed Review Chamber upon the causes that stop[?] there - │ │ so much

4. Expected average delay in d r[?] and in the House of Lords together, upon the causes passing through to the House of Lords │ │ so much.

5. Q 7.8.[?] The like questions in [...?] to expence.