29 Jan y 1808

Appeals

In 1708 came the first Union: the Union between England and Scotland and with it the Appeal from the supreme local judicatory of the minor nation national to the supreme impersonal judicatory. On this occasion, without any body, intending it is thinking of it (great minds do not stoop to such trivial considerations) the reward to merit[?] /of official/ flowed in a spontaneously increased stream /an augmmented stream/ into the pocket of the Officers of the House. The influx of Scotch causes to the impersonl judicatory wa accompanied as of course with /by/ the rule by which its [...?] quality was in so considerable degree derived /to which it was in so considerable degree indebted for/. Ostensible grounds /reasons/ were not wanting. In the case of the English Appeals called Writs of Error such was the established practice: and upon the subjection of the minor kingdom to a new dominion was not a period /an occasion/ in which the [...?] by which it /the subordinate judicatory/ was to be [...?] to its superior could safely /consistently with the rules of human //political/ prudence/ be relaxed.