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the event mentioned, it should, on a particular day mentioned be paid off so that
if an invitation given, had, not been complied with accepted with
in the instance of any one part of it,</del> <add>some <add> remained altogether without compliance failed of being accepted</add>(an event
which for some time was highly probable +) +Sinclair II, 112. the which
would in that one day have come to be paid off, & and
the money put into the hands of as many as on that
day might happen to apply for it. This But, that such
payment could have taken place, either in respect
of the whole of the mass, or so much as the greater
part of it, and that either in the day fixed, or on
any assignable of times succeeding day, within a
week's or a months, or even a greater, distance
of it, as a result that does not present itself as probable. To
borrow seven and near eight fifty millions in the lump, —
and at that early period too — eig nine
and twenty millions — presents itself as an
affair and that payable all in one day - presents
itself as an affair of no small difficulty,
even on the ordinary footing of equality obligation, as between
the two contracting parties. How much greater the
difficulty, where if, (as by the supposition contended against)
- one party - (comprised of the eventual lenders) —
was to be Gained, while the Government — the
the eventual borrower, was to remain loose! +also paid off on that day, to such as apply for it, and the remainder at such some subsequent day or days, according as the money for paying off shall happen to come to hand.
It seems therefore, that, according to the interpretation
put in that instance by Parliament,
nothing more is to be indicated by a notice that
the Capital of Government Ministers will, to such amount,
will be paid off on such a day, nothing
more is to be understood, than that, the pay here (as here proposed) a part will
be
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