5 Apr. 1808

Letter V

Ch.3. [...?]

11. In addition to the Commissioners to whom authority, co-extensive or nearly so with the whole field of procedure was given for the proposal of amendments /emendatory reputations/, and for ascertaining by enquiry the [...?] on which, as in their laws, their regulations even to rest[?], the learne scribe had [...?] his original Bill provided for the appointment of a distince set of Commissioners, when labours even to be confined to the plennary[?] a system of Jury Trial to be engrafted onto whatsoever system of procedure might have been planned or be about to be planned by the principal set of Commissioners. At the instance of the Faculty, by whom this superfactation[?] was disapproved of, it has in the learned scribe's amended Bill been given up. Of this after-birth, though abortion, the anatomy may afford matter perhaps for a Chapter by itself. /Ch │ │ Great [...?] Jury Trail Commissioners./

12. To the authority given to his two sets of Commissioners for the ascertainment of the necessary facts, the learned scribe does not in either of his Bills add so much as a particle of [...?] power, for securing either the [...?] of the veracity and then the correctness of whatever information may happen to be obtained. The Faculty having in this point left him at liberty and without guidance, the same importance attaches upon his last as upon his first endeavours. My reasons for regarding truth, and the reasons necessary to the obtainment as being a basis no less necessary to for legislations than to Judicature, will ' occupy a separate Chapter. /Ch. │ │ Power for procuring[?] the information is indispensible./ /+Whatsoever evidence /information/ may be /cause/ to be obtained by the exercise of the valued authority [...?] with power is [...?] valued to be at once incorrect and incompletely [...?] in better [...?], fallen away./ The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is In description of the sort of service /information/ which with indisputable prosperity is required at the hands of a [...?] from whom /when called upon for the/ information of that sort which is wanted[?] to form a basis for judication.