21 May 1805

Evidence

Introd.

Ch. Sinister Ends. Imbecillity

' Self-deceit

M r who with so generous so disinterested a confidence, actuated by the single virtue of a desire /desire/ to see the public served with the most excellent goods at the cheapest price "recommends" /never comes to recommend/ to the same public his (table[?] acts[?] and [...?]) would you have him say any thing in /to the/ prejudice of these admirable /choice[?]/ commodities? - as unreasonable would it be to expect to find have D r Such-as-one, D r any-body let drop a word or a syllable which should betraying /capable of betraying/ a suspicion of any thing of imperfection of the Roman law: in the room[?] /plan/ of Romans put English or any other system now being or that ever was in existence - being a system for the administering or the limiting of what there [...?] anything to be got.