26 Dec r 1806

Scotch Reform To L d Grenville 7

Resolut. 13

Interlocution Unapplicable

And do you then entertain Sir[?] /for[?], really see any reason for entertaining/, any such suspension[?] as that of a design /wish/ on the part of the framer of the claims[?] to enable the local judicature to work itself into an independency of /as against/ the authority of Parliament?

Not I indeed in good truth, my Lord, not the smallest: nothing could be more out of nature /nor any thing like/. Viewed in the [...?] appeals are subservient /conducive/ not adverse and in the [...?] of the fee gathering system to what, I know all [...?] found it impossible to avoid seeing[?] to be the ends of judicature.

It is only on this and that individual occasion, when particular partialities or other similar [...?] have claimed to come in and operate, it is only in this way that I see any danger of any purposed[?] framed upon the authority of Parliament.

But it is the effect only /alone/, and not the design that is worth thinking of: and whether under the clause in question the effect I mean that of a gradual subscription[?] of the practice of the local /subordinate/ Court from under the controul of the superordinate be not a probable result, is what I beg leave to submitt to your Lordships judgment as a question /point/ not unworthy of regard.