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[094-285v] 20 Feb y 1807 Letter
[094-285v]

20 Feb y 1807

Letter IV

[...?] 6.7.8.9.

Juries[?] in After denial

 Injured[?] in C?

And [...?] my Lord, after a Cabinet the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice [...?], the two learned Lords in company, should Your Lordship be disposed for a little sport /[...?...?]/ (for under Your Lordship's high and painful /arduous/ labours /a [...?] and //as well as// arduous coarse of [...?] and labour like Your Lordship's/, relaxation in some shape or other may be necessary and to amusement may in some shapes add congenial use) disposed for sport, and at the same time to take for subjects, if not partakers of it Your two noble and learned messmates[?] a sort of game for example to be played at afar dinner, across the convivial table - merriment - merriment which to a Lord Grenville will not be the less palatable[?], if at the bottom of it there should be found a little Lark[?] of evidence - should this find Your Lordship in any such humour, should it be found not altogether without its dash of wisdom I would beg leave to submitt to Your Lordship not a /the/ game at /of/ [...?] exactly a game of questions and commands, but a game of questions simply - put together, a pair of them in the form of a dilemma.

Among the cases /instances/ in which Jury trial has been sold[?], there being so many in which it is not delivered, to what or to whom (says Your Lordship) am I to look says Your Lordship, for the deficiency? to the system, or to the hands by whom it is administered? If to the system, then why, my good Lord Erskine /Chancellor/, do you take it for a [...?] for your[?] coach? If to the hands, then what, my good Lord Ellenborough, have Yours been about, all this while?

There, my Lord, is the dilemma. Upon one or other of its horns, Your Lordship may I think concern yourself with seeing one or other of their learned Lordships stuck writhing and fluttering, till Mary[?] whispers to let him down.
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