PRIVATE

[...?] Dec r 1807

Scotch Reform

Omitt? Superseded.

Letter V

Ch.│ │ Omission causes

Reformer or Titius[?] to Lord Grenville, giving the reason for the omissions to be made in the Lords Appeal Accounts -

Between the Scotch job which it is our design to make and the English jobs which of course it is our bounden duty to preserve, the connection is most intimate: we have accordingly two points to attend to - to make a case for the Scotch job, and in so doing to avoid bringing the English jobs to notice.

In this task of ours we are happily favoured by the current denominations. Woods serve us not only as engines but as screens: beyond and behind them the public eye must not be suffered, nor happily for us is it disposed, to penetrate. The attempt would be theory, speculation: and in the care it behoves us to take to avoid giving facility to such innovations happily we are in no great danger of being discovered, or though we were to be discovered, of subjecting ourselves to any very serious reproach.

In regard to Scottish judicature, Your Lordship's more particular objects are to make convenient situations for men of merit, who have the honour to be connected with Your Lordship's Administration, to take advantage of whatever suspicious opportunities may present themselves for giving to it every practicable degree of encrease.