★ Find a new page on our Untranscribed Manuscripts list.
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 3: | Line 3: | ||
<!-- ENTER TRANSCRIPTION BELOW THIS LINE --> | <!-- ENTER TRANSCRIPTION BELOW THIS LINE --> | ||
<p>Thursday 21 May</p> <p> Dear Bentham</p> <p> I have been waiting <sic>till</sic> I should <lb/> meet with some intelligent Member of <sic>Parl.<hi rend="superscript">t</hi></sic> who<lb/> might give me answers to your queries such as <lb/> you might rely upon; not having had that <lb/> good fortune I send you such as occur to <lb/> Nail & myself — We are not of humour<lb/> with | <p>Thursday 21 May</p> <p> Dear Bentham</p> <p> I have been waiting <sic>till</sic> I should <lb/> meet with some intelligent Member of <sic>Parl.<hi rend="superscript">t</hi></sic> who<lb/> might give me answers to your queries such as <lb/> you might rely upon; not having had that <lb/> good fortune I send you such as occur to <lb/> Nail & myself — We are not of humour<lb/> with Nickes's conduct & with his Speech, and <lb/> also with the Order of the Noblesse, and with <lb/> the Meetings at Paris — As to Mirabeau he<lb/> is I fear an incorrigible blackguard & also <lb/>very deficient in common sense— What could <lb/> be more foolish than to publish any thing at <lb/> this time which should give a pretence to say<lb/> that the liberty of the Press was dangerous — <lb/> They would not have dared to suppress a journal<lb/> Which had given a fair account of the proceedings<lb/> of the States.</p> <p> The Abbé Morellits' reasoning about your criticisms<lb/> on the French practice is very silly — What has <lb/> been adopted in their public assemblies hitherto is <lb/> most likely to be adopted again & it seems to me<lb/> highly necessary that you should continue to expose<lb/> its' inconveniences — It would seem that the Noblesse <lb/> in their first debate had at at least 2 questions<lb/> before them at the same time — Trail has found<lb/> an instance or two in de Ketz where Molé the <lb/> <add> Premier</add> </p> | ||
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 Morellits' 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
Premier
|
Identifier: | JB/541/051/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541. |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
|
1789-05-21 |
|||
|
541 |
|||
|
051 |
|||
|
001 |
|||
|
Correspondence |
|||
|
George Wilson |
|||
