If, Sir, you are not a perfect MOCKERY of that patriotism you so industriously persuade us is the spring of ALL your actions, if you have a grain of genuine liberty in your composition, if you are not steeled against the feelings of humanity, lost to every sense of gratitude, and deaf to the cries of the injured, you will search and probe the very inmost recesses of these infamous transactions; and, if possible, totally eradicate the cause. But I fear the root has taken too fast a hold to be removed by your utmost efforts; indeed you may lop the branches, and prune the sprouts, but nothing less than a parliamentary aid can destroy the trunk; or at least, to make any tolerable figure or progress in the business, the chief justice must exert his abilities and power, or all yours will prove little less than abortive and fruitless. But as it is not a sufficient excuse for neglecting a part, because we cannot accomplish the whole, I shall point out to you a few inconveniencies, which may in some degree be remedied or prevented in future. You are to take care that eligible bail is not, on any PRETENCE, rejected; for the laws have put it out of the sheriffs power to refuse such bail as APPEAR responsible for the debt at the TIME it is offered, nor does the law call on the sheriff, should such bail subsequently become insolvent; notwithstanding the contrary doctrine of bailiffs and pettyfogging attornies. You are to take care, that for a bail-bond to a bill of Middlesex, that one guinea _per_ hundred is not extorted, which is the common practice. You should totally abolish the imposition of making a prisoner pay half a crown, but oftener five shillings, for searching the office of Middlesex; which is a tax founded on no better authority than the mutual cheat of bailiff and clerk in office. You should take care, that no blank warrants go out of the office till the receipt of the king’s writ. You should take care, that such writs are sealed before you grant a warrant on them. You should take care, that such writs are not altered after sealing. You should take care, when more persons than one are included in a writ, that no more than one is put in a warrant. You should constitute a sworn appraiser of reputation, and take security for his integrity in the appraisement of all such goods as are seized by virtue of execution. You should prevent clerks in office accepting presents from bailiffs, as such presents cannot be for the public good. You should take care, that plaintiff and defendant are not BOTH charged with the expence of arrest, and that too by treble fees. You should appoint proper persons in Middlesex to take bail-bonds, the same as in London; but under better regulations. You should appoint a proper person to superintend lock-up-houses twice a week, and make returns of such prisoners as remain for want of bail, and the names of such bail as HAVE been by them OFFERED to the bailiff.