19 Feb 1808

on L d Eldons Bill

Letter V

II. Eldons & J.B.'s course

5/10/. As often as by the exercise of such powers a regulation /or set of regulations//any regulations/ of detail comes to have been made by the Court, I would require that it /they/ be reported forthwith to Parliament.

6/11/. - and that the Report should in each instance be accompanied with a designation of the considerations which in the character of reasons had served to recommend such regulations to their choice: among which reasons would of course be in every instance on which any such instructions had been given by Parliament, a designation of the mode in which such regulation appeared to be conducive to the particular end marked out by such instructions. Of the reasons for thus requiring reasons, mention /something/ will be made /said/ under a separate head.

12 In a word I would neither give nor leave to them any power that consistently with the end in view I could avoid giving or leaving to them, nor in regard to any power so given or left to them omitt to apply any check the application of which presented itself to be as promising to be conducive to that end. Of the grounds of this distrust mention will be made under a separate head.