24 Dec r 1806

Scotch Reform To L d Grenville

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Resolution 5

Pleading

A regulation enacted and presented[?] /given to the public as binding/, and thereupon in practice complied with or infringed, as suits the purpose of the perons or the time: a game called in plain English, playing fast and loose. Here then is one of these double Translations of which in the character of one of the engines[?] of the technical system I have already had occasion to speak. engines under that ingenious system, so convenient to the authors; so admirably adjusted to the ends of judicature.

Your Lordship may perhaps remember /recollect/ the time when the species[?] of duplicity was in the case of the Earl Indiscompany[?], made matter of importation: but technical judicature being a suit into which the eye of Parliament, especially at so great a distance, can so seldom endure to pry, that this and worse here continued for ages in the state of every days practice.