18 Jan y. 1810

Parl y. Reform

Ch.18 Sp. ?

'.3. Friendship continued

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A man in no situation, a man of nothing, who in preaching sound doctrine or what to him at least appears as such, has no [...?] to keep - has nothing to lose any more than any thing to gain unless so fond[?] a hope as that of seeing it turn to use /public use/ may be to be set down to the account of gain, also how no such property &c on any such occasion operates in any perceptible degree in the character of a man of influence - one who sees no person whose interest in the character of a friend it would cost him any thing to sacrifice on an occasion of the sort in question to the interest of the whole empire, nor any person who in that same character could suppose himself or be generally supposed to have /possess/ a claim to the benefit of any such sacrifice - who is in no situation, in no /nor in any/ trust, nor on this or any other occasion has any claim to the attention of the public or any part of it unless by the having devoted some forty or fifty years to the study of the interest of mankind in the definitive field of morals and legislation any such claim /a claim to any such effect/ should be supposed to be constituted, a man so circumstanced may, if without merit, yet it is hoped without reproach, hold himself free /be allowed/ to preach on this subject sound doctrine, or at any rate what appears to him as such.

Taking up the pen with this view, instead of adopting and inferring the lessons just spoken of i.e either expressly or implicitly contained in the oration of the Right Honorable Orator, the lessons the only lessons which I can hold myself warranted in delivering on this same subject are the very reverse of his /those/.

 Specify them.