24 Dec r 1806

Scotch Reform

To L d Grenville

Omissa

Letter IV

After so much as has been said of the proposed manufactury /workshop/ of delay, it may serve almost superfluous to say any thing of the machinery proposed to be employed in it. a Printing-press is mentioned as a part of it. Thus we have /Here is/ an improvement upon the exchequer Chamber, an improvement in the Scotch taste. In the Exchequer Chamber we have /sit/ 8 Judges: in the Chamber of Review the maximum can be but 10: can it be in the power of 2 to make so great a difference? - But perhaps the printing is for the benefit of trade. The benefit of /to/ trade is at least as clear as the use to Justice. To trade the benefit will be at least as clear as to Justice.

But if the operation of the press be indeed a clear[?] directive[?] of them so necessary to Justice, surely Your Lordship will not suffer over Reverend and learned Judges of the Exchequer Chamber to labour any longer under a /the/ prevation[?] of it. For the amusement of reading they may then add that of [...?] - I mean Scotch boxing (Your Lordship does not know perhaps what lawyers' Scotch boxing is) now that dancing is become as much out of fashion among Judges as among dogs.