12 Dec r 1806

Scotch Reform /Evidence/

To L d Grenville

Letter 2?

L d G's: its Deficience

Superseded

Thus much as to Your Lordship's personal share in the business: thus much as to intention and every thing of that sort.

As to probable effects - if the object be to reduce /lessen/ the number /frequency/ of instances of misdecision and failure of justice - to reduce the generation /aggregate mass/ of delay, vexation and expence to the question what does it presume to do in subserviency to those ends - my answer is with the [...?] of an article, something, as far as it goes: but in improvision[?] of what might be done, and ought to be done, extremely little.

 More[?] in[?] further on

I will just state some of the most prominent abuses /take the liberty of stating to your lordship what be //in// [...?] of the matter present/: themselves[?] [...?] and then beg of Your Lordship to consider what it is if any thing that it undertakes to do for the remedying[?] of those abuses.

1. Interest which the Judges have at present in the preservation and [...?] of delay vexation and expence

2. Lord Ordinary's office in [...?]

3. In particular practice in regard to Representations in that office. Pillage without [...?], by receiving Representations without ends.

4. Written Pleadings - without worth[?], shape or ends.