8 Feb y 1808

Powers Se

IV. days of Sitting

A spectacle truly curious is to see /observe/ the confuzion and mischiefs in all shapes [...?] by the learned Memorialists as about to spring out of this /the/ arrangement thus in the lack of experience and common sense assumed to be the only possible one. The public fills /occupies/ three articles, almost the whole of the page.

[...?] est [...?] in ellâ[?] Fortunâ. The hall[?] was a profit /prospect/. Where authorit is a force, reason on the

same sits as an /needless //superfluous/ incumbrance, on the other side impotent: on both a nuisance and as such see the door of the attention shut against her face.