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☞ When For a Note – Eldon insensible to the mischief of delay –
proof his rejection of the sole remedy – Lords Delegates –† † N.B. This grounded in sure measure in misconcepts – He rather afforded them denied the necessity of a succedaneum to the present business his Honour, who is heard than H.K.

Expedients for forming it on –

As far as I can If I may rely upon the report made to me by a friend
who, in the debate of the 7th of April 1808 was present in the House,
and for of whose anxiety to render his conception as well as and thence his
report as correct as possible I can not entertain a doubt,
the Lord Chancellor on the opening of his Bill said inter alia
these two things: 1. As a matter of fact, that the arrear of Appeals accumulated
was is already so great, than an Appeal presented on that
day would have no probable prospect of being heard earlier than
that day six years: 2. as matter of opinion, that all Appeals
must ultimately be heard by the House itself, for that no other mode
would be practicable.

If in either House of Parliament there be a single person to
whom the ends of justice are in any degree an object of regard,
surely those two dicta, coupled together, the first declared, and the
opinion grounded in it, will appear to him to have some claim to
his notice.

In at least 9 cases out of 10 – I can believe I might go a great
deal farther, – the judicatory that with the name and the possesses the
authority and power of the House of Lords, is an in effect composed
of the Chancellor, and him only: three being the least number of Lords
sufficient to form a House, and, except in some such small degree of
frequency as above mentioned, no greater number than three being
present so much as in body, and nor than can, as present, or so much as professing to be present in mind: the two others, commonly the
Chairman of the Committees whose remuneration at the public expence
is understood as imposing upon him a sort of obligation of attendance
analogous to that the which binds the Cnancellor in his character of Speaker: and the Right Reverend
Prelate, whose attempt to make his escape after the fatigue of reading
prays has been intercepted.

True it is that now and then – and it signifi matters not
much with what exact degree of frequency, either Members drop in, in some
very small number, and perhaps once in a half a dozen years or so, in
a considerable number. But by these exceptions to the general rule – by
these

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Date_1	1807-06-04	Marginal Summary Numbering	33-34
Box	106	Main Headings	scotch reform
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