22 Dec r 1809

Parl. y Reform

Members of the French Parliament's team[?] made [...?] interest of their purchase money? See Adam Smith.

It is not I that have lifted up the veil: man[?] is neither the moral nor the dement[?]. Over and over again the fact has been held up to view in pamphlets and in speeches: pamphlets read, speeches heard by his friends, and no /nothing in the shape of/ reply ever attempted, for this plain reason because any thing in the shape of a reply is absolutely /utterly/ impossible.