27 Feb y 1808

on L d Eldon's Bill

Letter V

'.4 Reasons not impracticable

Regulations on which reason are[?] grudged, are those of private law, which require a few: grudged because regulations on this ground] are made by Judges, under the [...?] of the sinister interest [...?] by the influence of the fee charming system.

There are /is/ /We have been seeing/ a certain class of laws the reasons of which turn upon matters of fact of this or that particular description, and which not being the result of /not/ the general principals of human nature upon circumstances common to mankind in general in a civilized state of society but being the result of particular situations and occupations, require to be collected and brought to view by special inquiries directed to that end. These are the cases in which reason being expected and called for as of course, antecedently to the establishment of the /a/ proposed law no trouble, nor /neither trouble, nor writing in/ any quantity - as trouble is grudged no quantity of writing occupied in the giving expression to reasons on both sides and all sides, is thought to much.

In the cases again,