Jan y 1807

Scotch Reform To L d Grenville

Facienda

Juries why on appeal only

But how is this, (I think I hear your Lordship saying) how is this, Sir, Juries in your place according to you on Appeal only, and never in the first instance - You an Englishman, and so much behind[?] English, and even as now it appears Scotch lawyers, in your attachment to that grand /so fundamental a/ security for English liberties?

My Lord, with your Lordship's leave though I flatter myself with the thought of having been already in no inconsiderable degree anticipated by Your Lordship's discernment, I will state to Your Lordship very distinctly why my notion of the proper use of Juries has these limits, and why on the part of lawyers, Scotch as well as English the fondness for Juries has no such limits.

The ends of justice, my Lord, these and no others are the ultimate objects to which my attention is universally /throughout/ directed: to any others, how dear so ever to me, no otherwise than a means conduces to that end. So far as they appear to me thus conducive, so far my attachment cleaves to them: no sooner do they appear to me to cease being conducive to these ends, then there my attachment leaves them.