JB/091/038/001

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18 Decr 1806
Scotch Reform Evidence To Ld Grenville

To make the matter short, and more , I will venture
to submitt to Your Lordship the substance – not of a speech
that might have been spoken, but forasmuch as to this suit cause
as to others there are two sides, of a dialogue that might
have been held.

After the usual introduction, consisting of compliments, and
observations of the weather, and the appropriateness of the place (an
appropriate place such as Westminster Hall is for greater tranquillity
the Villa of say a Lord Chancellor or a Lord Chief Justice being chosen of course) with a few
words to open the occasion
the dialogue went on
as follows.

Non-Lawyer – Delay, and vexation, the more there
is of it, to us suitors I mean, the more expence:
and the more expence to us suitors, the more profit
to you lawyers. We are as much the King's subjects
as you are: there are more of us than there are of you
more than a hundred I hope to for one. Where In so far as our
interests clash, and alas! there is a scarce a point
(I fear) in which they do not clash, it is on this ground that
we claim a the preference. I confess honestly I know of
no other: yet with submission, I should hope this one
may be deemed sufficient.

Lawyer. Mighty injurious indeed! I mean in
theory: an speculation – you understand me – in theory: – and so
you would have the affairs of mankind carried on upon
such fine-spun theories?

Non-Lawyer – Theory? I don't understand theories:
not I, good or bad (my conception of the matter I mean
it was from Cocker's Arithmetic that I took it. A
hundred men are as a hundred times as many as
one man: are not they? You may call this theory
if you please, is it the less true?

Identifier: | JB/091/038/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1806-12-18	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	038	Info in main headings field	scotch reform to ld grenville
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	29034
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