10 Jan y 1808

Elucidations to /table IX, X, and XI

(f)

(Arrears of each year) This column, together with then two next, viz ( Gained upon the Arrear) and (Total amounts of Arrear) (viz. in each year) deduced as they are from those comprized in the official Accounts, are here added, for the purpose of applying the information the more closely to the object in view.

(g) ( Gained upon the Arrear) The comparative degree of dispatch given, in these the following years viz. 1797, 1798 under the management of Lord Loughborough, compared with the Arrear which, commencing in the next year (1799), continued thenceforward to encrease, is an object, that ought naturally to attract notice.

(h) ( Totals remaining upon the Arrear) These results are deduced, by subtracting from the numbers presented in each year, the numbers disposed of a disposed of viz. in one or other of the three several ways, viz. by the Appeals being either heard, withdrawn, or dismissed. Had every year produced an Arrear in that case in each year the total amount of the Arrear [...?] in the course of the whole period down to that year inclusively would throughout have been exhibited, by the simple operation of adding to that year the Arrears of the several preceding years. But, as the Table exhibits two years (1797 and 1798) which, instead of making an addition to the total amounts of Arrear in those years respectively, subtracted, each of them, a number from the total amount, hence came the necessity of interposing, between the Column and the Column expressive of the Arrear of each of the years that afforded in Arrear, the Column expressive of the numbers upon the Arrear, viz. in the only two instances in which any such extra dispatch took place.