25 Dec r 1806

Evidence On L d Grenville's /Eldon's Bill

In the plan in question, it has been my fortune my Lord to see exactly that sort of character which the situation /position/ of the [...?] and Contents has[?] pointed out, as above, as being [...?] to the principles /congenial to its source/ known unchangeable principles of human nature. The interest of the non-lawyer /[...?]/, so far as the interest of the lawyer was found to coincide with it, consulted and [...?]: but at that point in the truck[?] of repose[?] the plan stops: when to benefit any further the interest of the non-lawyer a [...?] to any considerable amount[?] would have [...?] to be made from the advantage of the lawyer, then[?], of [...?] as was to have been expected, the [...?] of improvement stops, and the intent of the non-lawyer, that is of the great body of the nation is interned[?].

In a word what room can there be for doubt - open the book of experience. Look to the regulation of it. Look to the regulations of [...?] of the same[?] [...?]. The same field cultivated by the same /[...?] travelled[?] over by the same/ sort of hands, loking to the same ends. A hundred and

│ │ years in the vinyard field, for two or three years in peasantry[?], serve[?] then in diggin round and prunin, and the fruit brought in that sort and degree of perfection which has produced a demand for the /the opportunity of calling for the like skill and/ like industry to be deployed by the [...?] hands.

The precedent serves /has served/ as a warrant /as a warrant fo renewing the work/: and with equal propriety it may serve as a sample: as a sample of what the work, the same renewed work may be expected to be when done.