Feb y 1807

1. Resolutions

II. Omissa

Letter

Conclusion

Upon the whole my Lord - I speak with regret though for the reason so often given /assigned/, without the slightest tincture of surprize taking your learned Reformers plan of reform together the complexion of it seems to be of this hue - he has undertaken to wash the blackamoor white, and he has borrowed ink to do it with.

My Lord it is not by a wash, though it were cream of roses that such a change is capable of being made in such a subject /subject can be made to undergo such a change/. It is to Medea[?] we must apply for a recipe. As she dealt by [...?], so must we deal by our blackamore. To boil him white we must boil him young again. We must for once take a leaf out of the book though not the black book of Medieval: we must repigliare et stato[?]: we must go back to first principles: We must open the book of Natural Procedure: we must go back for it to the nursery, and in the case of our blackamoor or have beholden corruption the cause of all his blackness, in preparing the ingredients for the cauldron we must in the first place take care to infuse the necessary dose of antiseptics.

The principal ingredients in the mature medea[?] though many of them already submitted in by me as occasion called will now be brought to view altogether in the Facienda.