27 Dec r 1806

Scotch Reform │ │ To L d Grenville

Facienda

II. Registration

Of theses topics in the character of heads for judicial registration I have ventured over this plan, and surrente[?] calamo[?], to save Your Lordship the trouble of turning or so much as off so far as even to the Appendix, to submitt to Your Lordship this trusty[?] /[...?]/ view.

Believe me my Lord, that whatsoever may be their possible use, and the advantage /profit/, eventually derived from them, in their nature and import when once brought together and expressed there will be nothing that will pass /to surpass/ the ordinary sum of understanding that may reasonably and from experience be expected to be found in every hand /man/ capable of holding a subordinate pen in any judicial office: nothing in a word more abstruse than to be found among the heads /articles/ which form the matter of the Table of the natural causes of Complication and delay subjoined /that accompanies/ to the end of this Address.

And now my Lord be pleased to compare with the list of these uses the uses that have been or could have been in [...?] with those in which the practice of compelling an extraction of the [...?], composed as above, originated: and the propriety and honesty there could be in [...?] at length whatsoever is capable of having been said by or on the behalf of both parties - all along without the smallest obligation to truth, and with the full benefit of the mendacity-licence: and this without any regard to the difference between cause and cause, and the difference in the demand respectively afforded for registration, according to the intimations /indications/ above submitted.