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1821 Aug. 10

J.B. without signature to Mora Madrid. Broullion preached
☞ Copy sent that same day by post

You will recognize, I hope, in this short letter a
correspondent from whom you have received much longer
ones. I write this to inform you of a visitor whom your Capital
may expect speedily: no less a personage than a favourite of
our God upon earth, Leach the Vice Chancellor whom, upon the
resignation of the Chancellor, which it is thought can not be
far distant, every body expects to see Chancellor. My Author
is an Eleve of mine, who practises as a Barrister, and as such is
continually in attendance on both those learned persons. The
fact of his intended departure for Madrid he mentioned as being
so universally known at that Bar, that I it did not occur to me to
enquire by what means the destination in question had transpired.
But the desire was mentioned as quite ardent, and what
follows was mentd. in proof of the ardency. In or after each
of the four terms, interspersed with the days appointed for the more
regular and definitive operations, are certain days which, under
the name of seal days, are employed in hearing the sort of
incidental applications called motions. Of the four belonging to
this term, the third was thus employed last Saturday August
the 4th: the fourth and last stands appointed for Tuesday:
not till after that day accordingly can he set out. But in
how short time after that day he may set out can not
yet be told. Now as to the haste. In general for this business
the Judicatory begins to sit about ten and adjourns
about four. On Saturdays, beginning to sit at the usual time,
it sat, that is to say the Vice-Chancellor sat, (for the Judicatory)
is single scaled till half an hour after 6, was then
adjourned till half an hour after eight for the Lawyers &c.
to eat their dinners. At that time he sat again, and did not
rise till one o'clock the next morning, being Sunday morning.
He would have kept sitting on longer, but the patience
of the Lawyers could hold no longer. Notice was then taken
by some of them that as the latter part of the business had been
carried on after the Sabbath day had commenced, there
might be doubts as to its validity: for that carrying on any
part of the business of a Judicatory, at any rate of that Judicatory,
was an incident altogether unexampled.

Identifier: | JB/013/215/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1821-08-10	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings
Folio number	215	Info in main headings field	jb without signature to mora madrid brouillon preached
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / d1 / e1
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	[[notes_public::letter 2793, vol. 10; "copy sent the same day by post" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	4664
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