21 Oct r 1807

'.5

Eldon's Bill

No, not a single hour of their six months holidays do they offer to give up /can they indure the thought of giving up/: content to remain, and to their lives end, the habitual and not now at least [...?] instruments and accomplices of depredators /the depredator/ and oppressors /the oppressor/, throughout the whole extent of that kingdom which /throughout/ by the most solemn of obligations they stand bound to maintain justice.

Feat Justitia, ruat coclum[?] was the [...?] brought forth by their noble /illustrious/ Countryman and Colleague in one of the most /the most/ brilliant and exquisite effusions of rhetoric /oratory/ ever heard in the chief seal of English judicature: [...?] test less remarkable for its absurdity and mischievous [...?] /confounding the most fundamental and important [...?]/ than, for its impressiveness, and stage effect and delusive glare. This profession may in the profession made by these head ministers of Scottish judicature /justice/ find a sort of catechritical[?] parody. Feat injustitia, ruat terra.

In the [...?] catalogue of prophecies may be found not a few, the fulfilment of which has by the zeal of the editors been rendered somewhat more clear in the margin than in the text. But there /one/ is, the fulfilment of which, has been every where but too general and incontestable, has no where surely ever received so decided and explicit an accomplishment as, under the eyes of the learned Advisor it has thus been [...?], at the hands of these official lawyers /dispensers of pretended justice/. "Wo be unto ye lawyers:"  finish the sentence.

Such are the men to /in the activity of/ whose zeal for the discharge of their official duty, as well as in the profundity /depth and comprehensiveness/ of their wisdom the learned Advisor has been advised to place such implicit confidence!