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Premier President defeated the Nondeurs by altering the form of the Question.
The same thing appears to have been done by the
President of I forget what assembly of Nobles in
the Leyden Gazette a few days ago.

I hope you have not told Morellet that Romilly
had any assistance from other persons in the papers he
sent to D. de la Rochefoucault, or that more persons
than one were concerned in those papers — To have done
so would be very injurious to Romilly, & to Nail & Me.
To us by imputing to us a silly vanity of which we
are not guilty — To him because he is really
entitled to the Whole Merit Whatever it may
be, having done no more than every writer does,
submitting his work to the criticisms of his friends
& attending to such of their observations as he
thought deserved it — It is of little consequence
What the Abbé Morellet thinks concerning persons
whose names he does not know, but it becomes
material if he repeats it to the D de la R & Romilly's
other friends, who may be led to withhold from him part
of the credit he is entitled to from the work itself &
also to suspect him of want of Modesty & candour in grasping
for his own what was really done by others — If
I have misunderstood you on this point I beg your
pardon — What led me to suspect that you may
have so expressed yourself is the phrase "work
of the triumvirate" which shews your own notion of the
Matter, and 2dly that you did not mention names
in the plural.

Many thanks for the perusal of Morellet's letters
which contains some curious particulars — The rage for
speaking & incapacity of hearing seems to be a serious obstacle
to a free Government in France— I have heard it said
of

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Date_1	1789-05-21	Marginal Summary Numbering
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