24 Dec r 1806

Scotch Reform To L d Grenville 12(10

Resolut. 10

Avocate suspension

Were the occasion for application to any of the effects abovementioned matter of frequent occurrence, the delay, vexation and expence would be proportionably great.

But among a number of arrangements all equally necessary for carrying /working/ on the machinery of justice /judicature/ many may be found of such a nature, that the occasion for actually carrying them into practice may be matter of vert unfrequent occurrence: yet are they not on that account the less necessary, nor do they make in the source of the laws any less conspicuous figure, than those arrangements which are the most constantly and abundantly called forth into practice.

The Sheriff delinquent, the Coroner in league with him, what would become of the Courts of Westminster Hall without a pair of apporatory[?] Elizors? Yet the occasion for the actual[?] appointment of these occasional and ephemeral substitutes to the more paramount and regularly officiating Ministers of Justice does not present itself once perhaps in a twelvemonth: take away that power, a day would scarce have elapsed but proofs of the necessity of it would have started up in abundance.