1 Jan y 1806

To L d Grenville

Facienda

Outline

Application of letter post[?] to judicial [...?]

obtainable: whereas in the epistolary mode the extraction of the evidence of a man in that situation, whether in the character of party or in that of extraneous witness might be performed wheresoever and in whatsoever condition the letter of interrogation may find him, by means of the letter part or through any other channel.

Action for example in a Sheriff's Court in Scotland: defendant witness or even Plaintiff, a prisoner at Verdun. Addressed to himself a letter of interrogation authenticated ny the Court would probably reach him: sent under cover addressed to any other person there who in the case in question could be depended upon suppose a fellow prisoner, the letter not only be received /not only might the letter be received/, but evidence sufficient to prove the receipt might thus be obtained.