Dec r 1806

Scotch Reform │ │ To L d Grenville

Facienda

II Inspector Gen l 3 Appointment

2. Applicable to Scotch

If good law be written law, there is no country in which the benefit would not but[?] [...?] the [...?]

Should this suggestion be fortunate enough to meet Your Lordship's approbation as promising to shed a beneficent influence /beneficial effects/ on that part of the United Kingdom the particular exigencies of which have called it forth.

The suggestion /institute[?]/ if regarded as promising to be beneficial in Scotland /Scotch law and its law/ will probably be regarded as not much less promising when considered with reference to the law which governs the remaining and larger portion of the Empire. Several circumstances however[?] seem to concurr in pointing it out as applicable to Scotland in a preeminent degree. 1. the acknowledged inferiority of the Scotch system of procedure in comparison of /relation being had to/ the English: 2. in all[?] of the adoption of the already proposed or any other plan of reform, the demand there will be for an eye specially charged with the duty of watching over /watching/ the effects of the change: the distance of the capital seat of Scotch law from the seat of the imperial legislature /seat of inspection: [...?] and the advantage of having a fund of remuneration already in existence, obviating thereby the objection of [...?] given to the influence of the crown and the burthens of the people.