To the Lord Chancellor.
My Lord,—I hope I am not too late with the inclosed slight observations. If the execution already ordered cannot be postponed, might I venture to recommend that it should extend to one only? and then the plan suggested in the inclosed paper may, if your Lordship thinks well of it, take place, with such improvements as your better judgment may dictate. As to fewness of the executions, and the good effects of that policy, I cannot, for my own part, entertain the slightest doubt.
If you have no objection, and think it may not occupy more of his Majesty's time than such a thing is worth, I should not be sorry that the inclosed was put into the king's hands.
I have the honor to be, my Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant,
EDMUND BURKE.
CHARLES STREET, July 10, 1780.
To the Earl Bathurst, Lord President of the Council
My Lord,—