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Scotch Reform To the People

J.B.
To the People of Scotland

Friends and Fellow-Subjects

Receive for once an address to yourselves, an address to the people , in which party affection has no place share.
The subject however embraces everything that is, or should, or can be done to
you: the state of that law in which you may behold the only steady security
you have for your properties, your reputations, your family connections your liberties
and your lives. and your lives. Who your correspondent is, is of little moment to you. Professions
from him, you will have none. From the matter of this address You will form your own judgment as you go on
whether the advice it submitts to you to think of is and the offers it makes to you come from self- or a fraud.

That law is The state of that law is most deplorable. From the highest authority
in the state, confession may I not say – for surely it comes from unwitting lips, you have received information of that unwlcome truth.

Many Various are the administrations by which it has been recognized felt
you have found me at last to declare proclaim it: sufficiently ingenuous
to confess the disease mischief, sufficiently obedient to the call of
duty, sufficiently sensible to the impulse of true glory, sufficiently
confident in its strength, to hold out promise of a remedy.

How In the case of a public measure, how many hands soever may have joined there may be
that before it has been carried into effect may have taken a part
in it, some promoting some promoting it, some opposing it –
it is always to some one hand beyond above all others, that it owes stands
indebted for its introduction to public notice. In the present instance
that hand is Lord Grenville's. In a letter addressed to his
Lordship, I have taken the liberty to state submitt my thoughts on
the subject being pretty much at large: being in print they are of course at your command. But among those the various suggestions
which present themselves to any view as capable of being of
use, there are some which not calling looking for those circumstances not to for anything to be done
by his Lordship or any other man in power, but to you and you
alone can not with propriety be addressed to any other case eyes.

Identifier: | JB/091/047/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1806-08-25	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	047	Info in main headings field	scotch reform to the people
Image	001	Titles	jb to the people of scotland
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / e1 / / d2 / e2 /
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	iping 1804
Marginals		Paper Producer	bernardino rivadavia
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1804
Notes public		ID Number	29043
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