7 Jan y 1807

Omissa?

Opinions undivulged?

Codification?

No, my Lord, you who care, as far as any one man can, and farther - I call upon you in the name of the whole people of Scotland - their hearts I hope will not their heads I am sure will /can/ discover are - I call upon you - Give us our duties: give us our Rules that we may have them: give us our laws that we may obey them. The will is ours already: give us what alone[?] we ask , if the Minister of the Commons - of the Lords of the Sovereign - if any man - the possibility of [...?]. Rights we ask for more, against law: rights we see now, but through the medium of our duties: give us our duties, and then and not till then we shall know and have our rights.