1 Feb y 1808

Lords time

For the purpose of the calculation, against the number of malâ fide Appeals meant by the plan to be excluded but not excluded by it, let us set the number of bonâ fide Appeals not meant to be excluded by it, and yet excluded: and suppose (what seems a result as likely as any other) the two numbers to be equal.

Here then so far as concerns the number of Appeals, the effect of their plan stands thus: Malâ fide Appeals, all excluded: bonâ fide Appeals, none.

Now, with a degree of exactness[?] sufficient for practice, the number of malâ fide Appeals will, as shown by the annexed Table, stand expressed by the sum of the numbers of Appeals withdrawn and dismissed for want of prosecution, respectively.

But by the exclusion of the whole number of malâ fide Appeals, as thus determined, not only not the whole of the excess, but not so much as the smallest part of it, would be struck off from that portion of the mass of Appeals of which "the burthen to the House of Lords" is composed. For neither by those withdrawn nor by those dismissed is so much as the smallest part of the time of the House employed.