23 Dec r 1806

Scotch Reform To L d Grenville

Resolut. 6

Jury

But these official, these permanent and stationery Judges have[?] contracted partialities. My Lord, I dare believe it, it is impossible to doubt of it. I see it more than asserted, I see it assumed, as far as decorum and prudence will permitt, by persons writing on the spot, acquainted with the ground, and writing to those who are. Even If not to day; it was the case yesterday, and will be the case tomorrow: it is the natural and in a manner necessary consequence of geographical /topographical/ circumstances: of the narrowess of the spot /ground/, which for men of a certain degree in the scale of rank and education, affords but one circle.

Here then is one great use /use/, and in civil causes /non-commercial/ which alone are here in question, I will venture to assist it, the only use of Juries. Individuals /Persons/ standing clear of partialities referable to the cause in hand, may in the instance of each individual cause be in general obtained, it is supposed, and in the main not without reason, by the expedients employed or employable in the case of Juries.