29 Jan y 1808

Appeals

In the year 1800, came the second Union the Union of Great Britain and Ireland. Another influx of the matter of reward into the pockets[?] of official merit[?]. The opportunity was a happy one: and it did not pass unimproved. In Table note

In all these cases /Throughout that which pursued[?]/, the profit to the wrongdoer and his official probators increasing with the delay, and the delay increasing with the arrear.

The instant it became manifest that an arrear would take place, and that the causes that produced it would contrive to act with a force continually on the arrears, the trade assumed a new now and still more smiling face, the reward secured to official merit as condoned by official situation, acquired a new value.

In the instance of the House of Lords, so long as the judicatory is sitting, the mode of procedure on Appeal especially when compared with that of the Courts below has /presents/ little in it favourable to delay /if anything that seems open to the charge of being favourable to the production of facticious delay/. But the quantity of time applicable by the House to this comparatively unimportant part of its business being no more than what could be in a manner stolen from business of superior importance, and the interval of Vacation being of considerable as well as constantly uncertain lenghth and that determined by causes which have nothing to do with judicature, hence it is that in this instance, without assistance, because without need of assistance from learned ingenuity[?] /husbandry/, delay, wild as it grew on the waste of necessity, was always in sufficient abundance for the purposes of the trade.