11 Oct r 1807

Lords Delegates

After Ch. │ │ Advantages

Ch. │ │ Hale's Plan

2. The other is that Parliament, thus occupied in judicature, would have no time for legislation. Thereupon, (one) of two things one: either his plan would destroy the government, or government would destroy his plan. The choice resting with government itself, the aspect under which the danger will be apt to present itself is not a very formidable one. But before he could have said that no mischief would have ensued from his plan /Court/, it would have been necessary for him to admitt two things: that his plan /Court/ would have been destroyed by government, and that it was from the persuasion[?] /[...?]/ entertained by government of the destruction to which the plan would have subjected it, that the plan would accordingly have been destroyed by it.