22 Oct r 1807

L d Eldon's Bill

Between two legislators, each having a favourite quorum of his own, nothing decisive being in the nature of the case capable of being and for either, I stated as a necessary consequence, dispute interminable. Here in the example[?] it may be said the dispute has terminated. But in the case I had in view being a /the/ general one the legislators were supposed to be equal in power: but /whereas/ in this particular case equality was out of the question: the consequence was a necessary one: the man /one/ /superior/ in authority being the one beside himself, all dispute was out of the question /dispute took flight /fled/: Doubt remained master of the field.