[...?] 18 1808

on L d Eldons Bill

Letter V

Eldon's & J.B's course

I [...?] now to submitt to Your Lordship that course which had any such [...?] befallen be as that of holding the pen for the noble and learned Lords, would have presented itself to me as preferable: together with the considerations which, in the character of reasons , would have given birth to such preference.

1. In the first place I should have placed[?] all together such regulations, if any, on the expediency of which I had made up my mind, or such sort as to be decisions of seeing them established in the usual mode, and as it were outright, by one direct immediate /and in point of time immediately/ exercise of the authority of Parliament.

Here there would have been a first basis, and to the extent of the field occupied by them, a line /boundary/ of marked out humility the exercise of the functions committed /authorities entrusted/ to the subordinate classes of functionaries.

2. In the [...?] place would have come the description of the /delineation of the body of/ authority intended to be given to Commissioners for proposing regulations, [...?] if in a word so nearly attend[?] to innovation be endurable, a plan of reform, together with powers of inquiry adequate to the collection of the body of information necessary. /(for authority unprovided with power it would not have occurred to me to think of bestowing.