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8 Feb 1810
Parly Reform Sinecures
4. To substitute to this a mode system of procedure this
in so a degree fraught with delay, vexation
and expence, and at the same time so plainly repugnant
to the term direct ends of justice, viz those
the accomplishment of which depends upon the discovery
of the compleat correct and compleat discovery of
the truth has all along depended and been understood a mode free from all such factitious delay, vexation
and expence and at the same time subservient conducive in the
highest degree to the correct and compleat discovery
of the truth has in the instance of this high judicatory as
in the instance of all the other great several other high judicatories depended been dependent
and been understood to depend upon the will
and pleasure of the Judge and other great officers of the course by
whom justice is what goes by that name is in this
high judicatory administered: dependent, to wit in such sort that
though any considerable change could not perhaps
be made therein by any authority inferior to that of
parliament, yet as coming from the high official hands in question any proposition for the amendment
of it would according to all procedure be stand assured
of the most respectful attention on the part of parliament,
or any such proposition could not if introduced by
and other hands, be judging again from precedent
be reasonably considered as possessing any better
prospect than unequivocal marks of contempt and that of being dismissed with aversion
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