1 April[?] 1808

Letter V

Ch. 2. Features approved

'. 2. Appeals diminished

'. 2. Arrangements for diminishing Appeals

2. In the measure for /[...?] to/ the diminution of the number of Appeals, viz. from the Court of Justice[?] to the House of Lords / viz. allowance of //[...?]// [...?] on the [...?] of interest or the same withheld/ then[?] too, as far as it goes commands, in principle at least my approbation.

By taking away the inducement in some cases I perceive /behold/ it starting off, to a certainty part of the aggregate mass /bundle/ of those troublesome applications. By leaving it in the cases in part unremoved, I see it as certainty /with equal certainty/, necessary its[?] professed mark[?] in those other instances.

Stopping /and thus [...?]/ this far short of the attainment of the ends of justice, I know not how /I feel myself unable/ to ascribe the [...?] of it to a regard for the ends of justice.

The class of Appeals to which its operation is [...?], are the mala fide Appeals - those /being presented each of them by a defendant with the plaintiff moving[?] in his hands/ which, have for their final cause the profit from delay, without chance or expectation of ultimate success.

The extending beyond this class would have been not a [...?], but an objection to it.

But on the account given of this remedy by the inventor /inventors/, the property ascribed to it, the property in[?] the means of which the greatest, if not the only [...?] in land[?] by him /them/, is that of ridding the House of Lords of the "burthen upon its time": and to this effect it will not contribute a single [...?] : for the appeals of this description are all of those[?] either[?] withdrawn or for want of prosecution "destroyed": struck out of the books of the House before they have cost[?] a second of time to any of its chambers.