[...?] Feb 1808

on L d Eldons Bill

II. Appeals

Lords time

Thus much as to the influence of the proposed regulations upon the administration of justice, so far as concerns the national judicatory. But the expectations of the authors look higher and take a much wider range. If these "regulations were adopted", (says the Lord President with his ten learned Co-Memorialists) ["]we are persuaded, that the number of appeals would soon cease to be a grievance to the subject, or burthen to the House of Lords." +

The first inferior part of the design.

Melioration of the judicial establishment and the system of procedure provided for the execution of; striking off the unsatisfiable surplus of the demand made by Appeals upon the time of the House of Lords:-

If the view herein given of the subject be just, the first of these effects seems capable of being in a certain degree produced by the proposed regulations.

But what is curious enough is that excepting what concerns the judicial establishment, I mean so far as the system of procedure and that alone is concerned, whatsoever melioration may be the result will be the work of fortune, not having formed any distinct part of the object of the learned authors.

+ art. 49[?]