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with the redaction of the Cahier, and it seems to
be that Which has retarded the election at Paris
of which we have no account tho' the States
have met— If they will instruct let them at
least do it afterwards— I hope when you
have disciplined these States you will tell them
how to elect the next & how far their instruction
ought be carried & obeyed— But this
part of your task is not so pressing— By the
bye dont you think the terms Discipline &
tactics as dangerous to the liberty of the Assembly
as the word Marshall which in your first note
you are so afraid of— That note & one or two
other passages which we have remarked upon are
not equal in importance to the rest & might perhaps
have been shortened— There are occasionally great
faults in the style— a fondness for parentheses which
tend much to intricacy & obscurity, & generally only seem
to introduce some idea which would naturally occur to
the reader, & if did not might be spared— and
a passion for Metaphor which does not suit with a
didactic work— Haste too has sometimes prevented
you from attending to the consistency of your figures—

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Date_1	1789-05-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	014	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	george wilson	Watermarks	j bigg
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 656, vol. 4; also printed, with a few errors, in bowring, x, 199-200; enclosures are now missing	ID Number	3315
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