31 Jan y 1808

On L d Eldon's Bill

[...?...?] of competition in legislation

A word or two more, will your Lordship have, on the subject of competition. Applied to judicature, at least under /under the influence of/ the fee-gathering system, my conceptions of its efficiency /the efficiency of this principle/ were as already intimated, not quite so sanguine as Your Lordship /those of your Lordship seemed to be/.

Applied /Apply it/ to legislation, under a under a constitution such as our own I could with much less reserve have subscribed to the commendations that have been bestowed upon it.

Your Lordship [...?] will not, I believe, have observed /discovered/ any considerable symptoms of partiality on favour of the plea brought forward on the other side of the House. The impossibility /That it is/ of its removing altogether the imperfections /abuse of [...?]/ which it undertakes to remove is in my view as already observed, matter of demonstration. But that the effect of it must /will/ be to effect a /produce a partial/ removal of them in part seems equally undeniable: and that part is jut so much more [...?] that part of Your Lordship's learned Reformers pan which prevails over the same ground had any tendency to remove.

Be it more or less, the benefit derivable from the plan it is to Your Lordship's account that I set it down / down the whole of it. But for Your Lordship, that repose the regard for which is /has/ in the estimate /[...?]/ of the Right Honourable and learned author of the improvement been confessed to be or rather declared to be so much superior to all other considerations, would never have experienced any such disturbance.