Jan y 1808

Letter V

Power Session

[...?] single seated judicatories indirectly rejected

The backsliding on the part of Your learned Lordships is not the sole object of my fears: another is, that supposing the will no /whether //be// the will be present or/ wanting, the power it may be found it[?] grows legislating[?] on this ground, their hands it will be found are already tied [...?] by the three[?] first section. Divisions of the Court are: eight Judges for the first; no more than seven for the other. But in each of the two divisions, in the least one that contains but seven Judges, there is both an Outer[?] House and a Bill Chamber, each of which is to be furnished /stocked/ with a sufficient number of Ordinaries. When out of this number of seven the sufficient number of Ordinaries has been draughted out, still out of the /in/ remainder with whom /comprizing the population of/ the Inner House is to be a number to spare. For in /within/ this remainder there is to be a [...?] number that is a number that shall remain /be/ sufficiently to give legality to the business /transactions/ after the [...?] have withdrawn themselves. Section 7 has been already noticed as occupying itself in the fixation of this [...?]number: and as having ended at last in a blank[?].

In a considerable number of the other sections has this[?] same [...?] been undertaken, and in no one of them is there any blank[?]. In /on/ this section alone where the blank came to be filled up, the difficulty was found insufferable[?]: the [...?] fell out of the creative /legislative/ hand, that[?] the blank been filled [...?] by the [...?] number