6 Feb y 1808

on L d Eldons Bill

Appeal

This no satire

If I have laboured to pull down, it is as the Architect[?] labours to pull down, and to no other end than to bind up: to pull down the [...?] of [...?], the stronghold of human depradations, that the [...?] /a [...?]/ [...?] be sincere may be enriched in the room[?] of it.

To inflict [...?] is common to the Assassin and the Surgeon, but by the Assassin they are inflicted to destroy life, by the Surgeon to preserve it. When I have become an Assassin, then let me be pronounced a suturest[?]

A hundred times over would I sooner /rather/ cut my own throat, than write /be the author of/ the professed sutures[?] of the gloomy [...?] of the Right Knights[?], or were I capable of it, the Letters of [...?].

To sell to kindred malignants its food /nourishment/ in the occupation of the Suterist: to give to philanthropy, local and universal, its faint and distant hope, is [...?] to that of those invidious labours and thankless [...?].

To be /have been/ acceptable in /throughout/ the right of the givers of good gifts would have been a task /an occupation/ as [...?] as it is common: /+to have been an harmonious part in the indefatiguable and universal [...?] of eulogy/ but it would have deprived the cause of justice of its only, however faint and distant hope.