[...?] Feb y 1807

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Letter IV

Resolut. 6.7.8.9

Juries

Pastime[?] after a Cabinet dinner - question without commands.

Pastime humbly proposed for Statesmen - Game to be played at across the table, after a Cabinet dinner - present the First Lord Commissioners of his Majestys Treasury, the Lord High Chancellor, and the Lord Chief Justice of England, &c &c &c - questions and commands simplified - questions without commands delivered[?] in form of a question with a double aspect made into a [...?]

First Lord loquitor - Of the cases in which Jury trial is sold, there being so many in which it is not delivered, to what or to whom is it that we are to look for the deficiency? - to the system or the hands by which it is administered? - If to the system, then why, my good Lord Chancellor, takes it for a motto to your coach[?]? - If to the hands, then what, my good Lord Chief Justice, have yours been about all this while?

There is a dilemma - there he has them - upon one or other of its horns, behold their learned Lordships, one after another, stuck - writhing and fluttering, till Mercy whispers to let him down....

Alas, my Lord! - into what sanctuary have my thoughts been wandering! - but in ambition as in love, Sir Andrew Ague-cheek becomes Hercules in his dreams /there is no bound to man's boldness in his dreams/.