29 Dec r 1806

Scotch Reform

To L d Grenville

Omissa

1. Representations

Among practisers yes: because unless by accident, each practiser becomes acquainted with those delays only /factitious delays alone/ by which he himself has profited, whether manufactured by himself, or on the other side. But the Master Manufacturer /Manufacturers/, by [...?] whose loss his share of the produce of the labours of all his [...?] is proved[?], can the amount of that produce, or of any portion of it, be a scent[?]? And yet it is to one of these master-men that report /common [...?]/, in confrontation of the very nature of the case, ascribes the invention of this scheme of reformation /panacea in the pharmacy of judicature/.

Not only the non-commissioned /my brother [...?]/ imputes above referred to, but the institutional /expository/ writers to a man speak, as Your Lordship may see in the quotations I have made /passages I have quoted/ from their works, speak of this above as swollen to a magnitude beyond all bounds. Grim[?], sober, practical men with whom every thing else is as it should be, speak of this as a thing that should not be. So strong /violent/ is the stench of it, that neither the example nor the maxim of the Imperial masters /the Imperial maxim nor the Imperial example/ of ceremony can obtain patience for it were from the very nostrels that sniff up the profit from it. Yet to /upon/ the Bill formed thus unanimously against the maxim even by a set of Jurors all of them having their share /part/ in the profit of it, the Foreman has not taken /scrupled/ upon him to stamp on /his/ Ignorances.

Let it not be said /In vain would it be said that the object is a clamp[?] on the judicial establishment, and that this is a matter of detail not worthy of a place in the outline delineated by the resolutions. Encrease of costs is proposed in one of them: substitution of Appeal to Advocation and suspension by another.