21 Nov r 1806

Scotch Reform │ │ Evidence │ │To L d Grenville

Facienda

1. [...?] law[?] 2. Surplusage[?] 3. Inspection[?]

II Inspect Gen l Advantages

'. 3 or 4. Courses taken for rendering written pleadings subservient to /Means whereby[?] for improving the subserviency of/ the utmost to the ends of judicature.

Writing to them ever so little of it is at any rate in expence: writing by or with advice of a number of partnership is an expense yielding profit to the partnership. Original and fundamental use and profit.

To prescribe[?] /set/ limits to this expence is always attended with difficulty, a difficulty not to be surmounted but by written forms to the extent of the applicability of such written forms. In the hands of lawyers, Written pleadings /take all other written instruments/ have a constant and irresistible tendency to fill themselves /rise into/ with surplusage.

It was the century before the last that gave birth to the character thus described /delineated/: whether it be that nature after she had cast him broke the mould, or whatever else may have been the cause, since the days of Dudley North his fellow has no more been to be found in animated nature than a /any/ living specimen /sample/ of these of our fellow creatures /animals/ whose remand[?] the genius and industry of Caesar has recovered for our /us/ amusement from the wreck of time.