4 Jan y 1807

Scotch Reform │ │ To L d Grenville

Facienda

Causes mostly short

2. The second proposition is that in the form by which the technical system is distinguished from the natural - in these forms taken collectively or separately /in any one of them/ there is nothing that can tend to lessen the frequency of misdecision even on the ground /particular ground now /here// in question - the ground of law.

Thus proportionate, being in any part a negative one /of the negative cast/ is on my part however true incapable of proof: to disprove the truth of it, if it be not true, is a task that rests on the other side, Your Lordship would not easily, I believe, find any /a/ hand to undertake it.

/The third/