24[?] Dec r 1806

Scotch Reform To L d Grenville

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Resolution 5

Pleading

Here there is a regulation established by an Act of Siderent[?] established already in 1787: now in 1806 comes a proposition for establishing the same thing over again by Act of Parliament.

Here is /stands/ a [...?] fragment with reflections, and not much less so with doubts.

The regulation has it been acted upon? then why in a system of reform introduce and re-enact the regulation, and this alone, to the exclusion of so many hundreds of others that also have been acted upon these few times alone out of the contents of a vast folio volume.

Has it been consigned to neglect? - Then what security will the proposed re-enactment afford of itself against the regulations sharing the same fate a second time as it did the first.

Is it that their Lordships were in the habit of making regulations, and [...?], without repeating them, or saying in point a syllable about them, making them in practice as waste paper? Yes, my Lord, they are. Practice swarms[?] with instances: to collect them all would be too heavy /severe/ a task: but to prove it to your Lordship that what is here said is not without ground, a few references in the margin are subjoined: and even were these all, the points they include /embrace/ are such as can not but present themselves as swarms[?] in every days practice.