12 Feb y 1807

+ D[?]

To III - Facienda

From Letter IV

Resolut .6.7.8.9

Juries

Lawyers &c [...?]

But (says Your Lordship), if Jury trial even in its present form and stage, is not adequate to its ends, what is it that makes every body so fond of it? Here Sir, is experience, here is universal suffrage - what man would give [...?]? And again as to that natural system which you are so fond of, how comes it that no one but yourself has any where said a word in favour of it?

My Lord different descriptions of men, according to their different situations are swayed by different considerations -

I will first submitt to Your Lordship why lawyers are /(what are not, as well as what are, the considerations that render lawyers/ so fond of Jury trial in the present mode - next why non lawyers are /how it is that non-lawyers came to be so fond of it/ and this[?], is at the same time how it happens that we hear nothing from either quarter in favour of the natural mode.

(As to learned Lords and Gentlemen, before I state what in Jury trial the properties are that do contribute to their fondness for it, it may clear the way to state what these are that do not contribute to it.)