7[?] Feb y 1808

on L d Eldons Bill

Lord's time

Pursuing for the moment, and like[?] the [...?] course for descending into particulars, the same strain of general allegation, I venture on to submitt another proposition I am prepared to prove, that in the plan taken for administering this shame[?] relief the learned Reformer has trusted[?] over and over again upon the priviledges of the House of Lords.

Your Lordship will scarcely I believe suppose that in my view of the mischief ended[?] there it would form any very serious obligation to the measure. But my Lord in the privileges I have in view as in the prerogative of the Crown, a valuable part of the inheritance of the people: and whatsoever sacrifice Your Lordship's generosity may have reconciled you to the making in this shape, I a poor Commoner[?], can not give my consent to that being[?] made.

So far as concerns the reduction of this disastrous burthen, the means provided in and by the Bill bearing the name of the noble and learned head of British law are confined to those proposed by the learned Memorialists: for that part of the mischief which is composed of the growing influx, a remedy altogether inoperative proposed: for that part which is composed of the already accumulated, nothing whatever proposed to be made in the character of a remedy.

It is now some time since a plan designed to cover the burthen to the whole of its extent, avowed and not avowed actual and probable, including both these parts, was addressed and humbly to the noble and learned Lords, as well as to Your Lordship, and every other Lord of Parliament.