April 1807

 Happily superseded

Lawyers judged

The Lawyers judged: or Observations

On the Memorial of the Lords of Session, and on the Report from the Committee of the Faculty of Advocates. On the Scotch Judicature Reform Bill.

In a Letter /series of Letters/ to the people of Scotland

Friends and Fellow Subjects

Mt own observations on the proposed plan of Reform are already before you: they are contained in a series of Letters to Lord Grenville.

My own plan on the same subject is also before you: or[?] in a course of becoming so: it is contained in the same series of Letters.

In the mean time come two official publications containing observations on the same authoritative plan by two bodies of lawyers of your own part of the country: the body of Judges, and the body of Advocates.

Both of them contain matter of the highest /highly worthy of your/ interest to you both of them however stand in need of an interpreter: listen, my friends, while one who has no interest in deceiving you, performs /strives to perform/ to the best of his judgment and ability that friendly office.