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Queen's Square Place Westminster
13 March 1830
69.2
Sir
In the account given of the debates of Honble
House on the 9th instant in the Morning Chronicle of
the 10th I read these words — "Mr Secretary Peel ... He had given notice
of his intention to bring in a Bill to put amend to the all Fees
taken by the Officers of the Courts; and when that Bill
passed, they should then be able to apply themselves to a remedy
for all these those effects of practice which at present formed so just
a ground of complaint."
Reading these words I rub my eyes and say to myself — Is not
this a dream? ... What is this I see? One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries
of State become a Reformist ? a Law Reformist in good earnest? — Old man put off —
new man put on? — New man, and he very even like his humble servant —
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