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his mind impressed with this conviction that he could
hardly believe it possible it should be proposed
to pass a bill of so much importance in this superior
late period of the sessions – a bill introducing an
innovation so serious and one which might be
attended with consequences for at present so
little foreseen. – He had before stated some reasons
to shew that such a remedy was not far from being
calculated to meet the evil – and certainly nothing
had occurred since to make him alter that opinion.
He had very strong inducements to refrain from
coming avoid giving any reform opinion at all
on this subject. But these were personal to
himself. He had a public duty to perform from
which he must not shrink on account of any
personal considerations. Better acquainted as he
must be with the business of the Court of Chancery
than the majority of those whom he addressed, and
it would be in the highest degree disgraceful to
him if he were not, considering that he had
during a great part of his life practised in that
Court – he felt himself imperiously called upon
to put the house in possession of his ideas
on this subject –: and he had no hesitation
in declaring that the remedy proposed in the
report appeared to him of a descriptionso very serious
and objectionable a description that it demanded
the most anxious attention of the members
of that house and rendered it a matter of the least
importance that they should be fully aware
of the all the facts – of the real state of the
case before they adopted that remedy. –

Identifier: | JB/149/218/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 149.
Date_1	1825	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	149	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	218	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles	on the report of the commission for enquiring into the state of the court of chancery
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / / /
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[fleur de lys motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	50072
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