29 Oct r 1807

L d Eldons Bill

'.18

'.18 (1) (And whereas the present forms &c)

In /On the occasion of/ penning this last and most important section, as one the occasion of so many preceding ones, the Lord President's learned draughtsman, and the Lord Chancellor's learned draughtsman travel on the same ground /take the same ground to travel on/: but the Lord High Chancellor's learned draughtsman, as usual /here as elsewhere/, going to work with the joint advantage of superiority in point of station, and posteriority in time, illuminates it with light /coruscations/ passing the illuminative powers of his howsoever learned antecessor /harbinger/.

Contented with governing, the simplicity of the Scottish legislator restricts itself to the giving leave: disclaiming /scorning/ to force /lead/ /command/ the will without having previously enlightened the understanding, the more generous ambition of the English legislator makes it a law to itself to prescribe /no law/ to others no law to the admiring world below no law, which he has not previously justified, adorned, illustrated and anchored in the mind by reasons. Reasons? and what reasons? - even such as might have been expected from a discretion like his in its very soundest state: - to each set of regulations a reason, and each reason a discovery: a discovery in his own best stile.

Enacting that concerning the "extracting decrees, registration of the same and execution therein "... " full inquiries" shall be made, and by the inquiries such alterations or amendments (for so they be alterations they need not be amendments) as to the same shall appear to be most reasonable and best calculated for the due administration of justice in "that court" why is it /for what reason/ is it that he does so? even[?] for this reason, viz. because, (and this is the discovery he has made) then[?] "it would be expedient that regulations should be established relative to" that subject - and moreover that those regulations should be " proper" ones - "whereas" (says he) "it would be expedient that proper regulations should be established."