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27 Decr 1806
Scotch Reform To Ld Grenville

My Lord, as often as I consider it happens to me to call to mind
the sort of advice which Your Lordship is compelled to
listen to, and to be everything but governed by, I can
scarce help smiling at my own simplicity, at the
thoughts of the ridicule that attaches on the sort of task
that I have imposed on myself: but having gone
thus far in it, the labour already expended, becomes affords
as is usual, a motive reason for an expenditure a draught of for upon the sae fund, for an additional
stock of labour, of as little value or promise
as the first.

After all that has been said Suspect me not, my Lord, of being an enemy
to judicial registration: on the contr long, very long
have I beheld in it an instrument of prodigious
though hitherto almost unexampled use. But cui-bono, to
what specific, tangible use – is a question by which
my views on this as on every other quarter of the
field of legislation been invariably directed. All
surplusage, all extortion out of defalcated, registration is still every
word of it, so much expense: now then be the word what
it may be, what is the use which you mean and expect
to be made of it? derived from it? Such is the question, which in these
cases, in my humble view of the matter ought never to be lost sight
of. Here is an entry you require to be made propose to have made: made and paid for: now then will where made, what and to whom will be the use of it?

Identifier: | JB/091/146/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1806-12-27	Marginal Summary Numbering	12-13
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	146	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	e6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	29142
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