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26 Decr 1806
Scotch Reform To Ld Grenville

In truth, so far as individual design is concerned, if it
were worth thinking of about, the case that I should expect
to find verified, as far as design can be verified,
is – that very upon this part of the plan very
little reflection was had been expended. Here was a source
of appeals frequently and notoriously vexatious: here
was a grievance: here had been a habit of complaint:
let us put an end to it at once: appeals against
interlocutory judgements have been a notorious engine
of chicane: let us have no more of them. No professional
interest directing presiding here: but under the spur of
necessity, a sudden sacrifice made of professional interest to
the public voice.

At the same time should a distant glance prospect
of confusion rising in the background have accompanied
the sacrifice, the wonder would not be great. Among To
those whose practice gives them an interest in abuse, whom
the clamour for reform becomes at length too loud for resistance to endure admitt of resistance
any longer, the prospect of seeing it⊞ ⊞ rendered abortive
by want of skill
and appropriate experience miscarry remains affords
the natural comfort and the only hope: – there, have it
your own way, and take the consequence.

Thus when the indignation of the people had rendered
it no longer practicable to dispose of their fate in a
jargon that did not contain a single word in it which they
could so much as fancy themselves to understand, the lawyers
set about translating it, word for word without choice or exception,
secretly indulging themselves in those exultations which the open manifestation
of which the simplicity of Blackstone in his simplicity, was not able to suppress. You would
have it in English – now what are you the better for it? What you expected looked for was information: what you have got is nonsense.

Identifier: | JB/091/125/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1806-12-26	Marginal Summary Numbering	16-18
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	125	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	c5 / e8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	29121
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