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under their hand evidence of my appropriate
aptitude to afford useful information on the conjunct
topics of Law as it ought to be and Law
as it is. To both I am a declared object of "reverence"
(to which affectation is is moreover added):
that in both instances the relation they bear
to me is that of a Scholar to his Master. This
neither you yourself nor your Commissioners
were apprised of: but you now are: and a
sight of the passages in question together
with whatsoever others can contribute to
your satisfaction on this head is at your command.
That such as above was the relation
borne to me by the late Sir Samuel Romilly
from his entrance into the professional
career up to the period of his greatest celebrity
is matter of Record in the Debates of the
House of Commons.
From time to time accident brings to
my ear to hear of opinions entertained by M.r Robert Peel,
in favour of such my appropriate aptitude.
But of this I have no means of incontestible proof,
and the Home Secretary might either do (as Judge
and Co. would without scruple) during deny the
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