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and according to a phrase now in use among
our men of Law & Politics cram him as well as I am
able. Were he to board as a parlour boarder in
Hill's School, he w<hi rend="underline">d there see not only Judicature
but Legislation carried on, tho' in such miniature
in a manner which by its excellence w<hi rend="underline">d form a
most instructive contrast with what is done upon
the great national scale. One

One grand point but probably no small
difficulty w<hi rend="underline">d be the keeping the Government in its
present provisional state, till matters were ripe
for being settled upon the footing leading features of my constitutional
Code, if it be good for any thing or at any rate
of the Judiciary part: what I fear is, their being in
haste all of them, to get into the situations they
respectively covet, and getting so firm a footing in
them in wish and endeavour, & thence in effect,
that the idea of change w<hi rend="underline">d have become unendurable.
If they could be made to take a right
view of the matter they w<hi rend="underline">d see (I mean the first
occupants of the situations) that by the responsibility
that is imposed upon them strict as it is, even personal
interest w<hi rend="underline">d not be a sufferer.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	199	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5 / f9
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks
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Notes public	copy of part of letter 3071, vol. 11	ID Number	4260
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