5 Sept 1807

Scotch Reform

11

Letter V or VI

L d G.s opinion of Lawyers

These were in one[?] or other [...?] saleable [...?] officers[?] should have been consolidated.

Here, my Lord, was something like a lawyer. This man, I speak it with great submission, was the man for Your Lordship's purpose.

Here was a man who if you had put a Bill into his hands to support would never want to know what it is.

Here is a man who, if you had twenty Chambers of Review to defend, one above another to support, would have supported them all, and with a vigour proportioned to their number and their bulk: when the Person is an Atlas, the heavier the edifice, the greater his alacrity, because the more illustrious the display he makes of his strength.

Right and wrong are the creatures of law. Before the Act is passed, twenty such Chambers may be more than enough, it may be wrong to have so many. But let the track of the sceptre be but once given to the Bill, the twenty Chambers though there were fifty of them, are become law, and now all is right, and every thing is as it should be.