8 Feb y 1808

IV days of Sitting

What is seen by seven out of the 15 Judges to be thus impossible, is by the Faculty of Advocates seen to be not only possible, but proper:- a thing which "ought" to be done.

Modes of vision thus different - and within the same walls, call for explanation and admitt of it.

Over and above the interest of learned Judges the interest of repose - there is another interest concerned in the business - the interest of the most current and fully employed individuals in the codes of Advocates - the joint interest of the overgrown utility and opulence /the love of favour[?] and opulence/. All the harmony of an illustrious[?] a lock[?] will not enable a man to exist in two places at the same time. Divide the two judicatories into two, you rob each one of these luminaries of half his business.

In these monopolizers[?] of farm and failure the learned and honourable [...?] of repose behold /on this occasion/ their natural [...?]. Ask any of /Demand of/ them whether it be possible for two judicatories to sit /be sitting/ within the same walls at the same time. Their answer, already given by the [...?] of Your Lordships learned reformer - they answer - it is almost superfluous to say, will /would/ is in the negative.