[...?] March 1808

Letter V

'. 9* Powers[?] to Session. Sittings in Rotation.

'. 5. "And that such duties in the [...?] House and Bill Chamber shall be performed by the Ordinary Judge on such Rotation either of Years, Sessions, Months, Weeks or other Rotation as shall seem most expedient for the dispatch of business and avoiding of expence."

In speaking of this [...?] ends of justice I have already had occasion to bring /point/ to view the care that seems to have been taken to prevent them from taking so wide a range and occupying in the full of legislation a larger division than it was [...?] convenient to interest [...?] with. On a clear [...?] /nearer[?] inspection/, the little /small [...?] of/ authority and influence with which an appearance they were convicted seems /at first sight they appeared/ reduced to nothing, or what is next to it.

Avoidance of expence? how was that object capable of being affected, one way or the other /on a good way or a bad one/, by any rotation that could be established in regard to the time of sitting in these single seated judicatures? no otherwise, as far as I can see, than[?] is as far as encrease of expence is liable to have[?] encrease of delay for its cause encrease of delay: a connection which, though /howsoever/ real is not among the objects which I should have expected to have seen attracting the notice of the learned author any such plan as that which [...?] before me /of the present Bill/.

+See Talk of Delay.