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Tothill Fields Plan of Division with Observations
than to its substantial interests, they could, within
the compass of any very short period, come
to the same Government, either with much
grace, or with any promising probability of
success, with an application on their part for
a favor, on terms dictated by the sole consideration
of particular interests, in contradistinction
to those of the public at large —
8. As to future Members, admitting even that
in come contingent period, consequent upon
the favourable termination of the necessary chancery
Suit above spoken of, an opening may be
to be descried, of a possible advantage to those
successors, exceeding what would result to the same
successors from the adoption of the plan now proposed,
it may still be deserving of consideration
on the part of the existing Members, whether
the liberty they have of consulting their own
immediate advantage may not, by the regard due
to interests of a higher order, be found to be converted
into a duty, paramount to any which
they can be conceived to owe to any such hypothetical
& unknown relatives: more especially
if it be considered, how impossible it is that any
the slightest sensation of an unpleasant kind
should ever be excited, by the proposed transaction,
in the breast of any individual, in
whose instance no expectation, of the benefit
which he is for argument sake supposed to
be bereaved of by it, could ever have taken place.
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