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Thursday 21 May

Dear Bentham

I have been waiting till I should
meet with some intelligent Member of Parl.t who
might give me answers to your queries such as
you might rely upon; not having had that
good fortune I send you such as occur to
Nail & myself — We are not of humour
with Nickes's conduct & with his Speech, and
also with the Order of the Noblesse, and with
the Meetings at Paris — As to Mirabeau he
is I fear an incorrigible blackguard & also
very deficient in common sense— What could
be more foolish than to publish any thing at
this time which should give a pretence to say
that the liberty of the Press was dangerous —
They would not have dared to suppress a journal
Which had given a fair account of the proceedings
of the States.

The Abbé Morellets' reasoning about your criticisms
on the French practice is very silly — What has
been adopted in their public assemblies hitherto is
most likely to be adopted again & it seems to me
highly necessary that you should continue to expose
its' inconveniences — It would seem that the Noblesse
in their first debate had at at least 2 questions
before them at the same time — Trail has found
an instance or two in de Ketz where Molé the
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Date_1	1789-05-21	Marginal Summary Numbering
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