8 May 1807

II. Omissa

Letter VI

Introd.

My Lord

I am arrived at the 2 d of the three topics announced in the opening of the first of these letters. viz.: Omissa: things [...?] which, according to my humble conception of the matter, ought to have been proposed in a Bill /Plan/ having for it object "the better regulating the Courts of Justice in Scotland and the administration of justice in Scotland therein" and in the Bill /Plan/ in question are not proposed.

As to my /these/ Omissa, were the catalogue of them /here given/ to be given compleat, Your Lordship understands already that it would include every arrangement by which the technical system of procedure, according to the mode of it in use in Scotland differs from the natural mode: in a word almost every arrangement from /by/ which the procedure of the Court of Session differs - I can not say crudely and simply from the procedure of the Scotch Small Debt Courts and English Courts of Conscience, but what would be the procedure of those seats of uncorrupted justice were their field of jurisdiction with that of the regular, the technical Courts with the Court of Session at the /that/ head.