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carried on by persons of whom many antecedently to
experience must have had claims to confidence equal
at least to any I can pretend to. Accounts minute,
distant, frequent & public with a readiness to give
reasons for every thing, to answer all sorts of interogatories,
and as far as may be to anticipate them, will be
found, I presume the best security against such a disease.
It is not uncommon to stickle for blind confidence: Me
you cannot flatter more than by concerting with me the
means of reducing confidence to its minimum, and
putting it in the most effectual manner out of my power
to do wrong. The frankness of which your conversation
gave me such abundant, and such pleasing marks,
gives me hopes of your indulging my humour in this
respect. As to the money it is as you please but the Authority
you will perceive to be indispensible.

Waiting for his Excellency's fiat would lose, I —
suppose, at least a fortnight: you know more precisely.
This fortnight may throw things so far back that at your
next arrival or even departure no Model may be made
and the business in little more forwardness than it is
at present, and then every thing will drag on with the
clog of a tedious correspondence between this country &
Ireland - If under these circumstances you think it
advisable to take upon you the rest of the risk, in the
pecuniary part, I am ready to go halves with you.
The honour of co-operating with Sir John Parnell towards
a great common end, will be my sufficient indemnification.
Under such circumstances I should flatter
myself his Excellency would not look upon our forwardness
as a mark of disrespect to him, but the contrary, even though

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	043	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::edmeads & pine [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	edward cooke
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 711, vol. 4	ID Number	38660
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