23 Dec r 1806

Scotch Reform To L d Grenville

Resolut.6

Jury

After all that has been said does your Lordship suppose that I would discard Juries /Jury Trial/, or that my attachment to it is less strenuous than if I had taken for a [...?] to my Couch? My Lord, the misconception, though not altogether /certainly not/ an unnatural one, would be a compleat one. Not that I know of my merit or demerit in seeing one scheme better adapted than another to the ends of justice: but so it happens, there for /by/ not being indiscriminating it is not the less /already and sincere/ firmly rooted. Applied to cases of the most important if not the largest description, it appears to me / in my view of it/ that the compilation, which is as much as to say every thing valuable to us, depends upon it. Applied to /cases not/ non-criminal, if applied in certain terms and conditions, it appears to me /in my view of it/ (I am speaking now of Scotland) it may be applied with great and indisputable advantage.

Details, I dare not here presume to trouble your Lordship with: time and space do not admitt of it but in the way of outline, I will take the liberty of stating to your Lordship what these terms are.

But on this occasion I find myself under a necessity /compelled/ of begging to draw your Lordship's attention once more to the system of Natural Procedure.