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In this state of things, one person, at any rate, there has been
one to whose eyes it was impossible for such a grievance to present
itself, without sending them with the most anxious zeal in quest
of remedy.

Three sources – not of relief indeed, but of the only remedy
left, application for relief, present themselves.

1. The Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh. Their The influence
if not of their understanding upon the understanding, at any rate
what comes to the same thing, of their will upon the will of the
heed head of British law, has been demonstrated testified by experience,
of the many and important suggestions made by them for the melioration amendment
of his first Bill, scarce one but has been adopted. Whether
be the f In the case of that learned body, that is of the a majority of its members whether private interest
would recommend concurr in recommending justice as preferable
in the judicatory in question to wh denial of justice and
sale of injustice, I stay not to inquire. Though composed constituted
of lawyers, yet constitute composed as it is, and the chance even of a public
spirit, of a regard for the ends of justice – in a degree adequate
to the purpose, is perhaps not wholly desperate.

2. The House of Commons. A time there was –
and that a long one, for it lasted near half a century – when
that Lower House of Parliament, by with a jealousy in the subsidence cessation
of which the people of all those kingdoms may well
congratulate themselves, denied to the Members of the Upper House their right
to exercise that function – saying, "You will abuse it".
On how much better ground might they now go up and say –
We are content, we are much more than content that you
should possess that function – but it is on condition that you use it.

Identifier: | JB/106/208/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1806-12-25	Marginal Summary Numbering	19-20
Box	106	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	208	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	verso	Page Numbering	e8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	57871003
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