29 Dec r 1806

Scotch Reform

To L d Grenville

Ommissa

Representations

Abuse 1. Representations boundless /in an infinite series/: After judgment pronounced in the Outer House by the Lord Ordinary, applications /representations/ praying for /insisting on/ a removal or alteration of the judgment entertained by the same individual in an endless succession, under the name of Representations.

In the Appendix, should Your Lordship's patience [...?] so far, in a section appropriated to this very subject in a chapter inserted for the purpose of giving a few samples /in which a few samples are given/ of the corruptions /corruption/ planted in the system of judicature /truck[/] of judicature/ by the fee-gathering system, thus, as being among /presenting itself as one of/ the most facted[?] served to close the list. To the observation therein made /contained/ a closer survey directed to the judicature /judicial system/ of Scotland in particular has suggested a few additional remarks.

In regard to the number received /listened to/ of these successive representations /[...?]/, any of which would of itself have been sufficient to constitute a reasonable abuse, I could at that time only speak in general terms. Now in the work of one of my

Co-annotators, I observe two stated as the number which had fallen within his own observation: but that /were it[?]/ number he found an addition made by the reports of others. Not being comprized /launched/ in the authoritative collection of decisions published by the faculty of Advocates, [...?] anecdotes of this sort transpose[?] only by accident. In one and the same cause, among practisers[?] /Advocates/ it may have witnessed [...?] such representations, and B never have heard of any such thing.