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The noble Lord having gone abroad upon in a public Earl is now being dispatched good at the departure upon an extra
character extraordinary mission as the confidential representative chosen to interpreter of
the plans and sentiments of an Administration from which almost all that this
the moment he had kept at a hostile distance. The
name of the noble Lord is now no longer mentioned
as an opponent to the measure: it need not. The
Act is as if it had never passed: the engagement in
pursuance of which it was brought in is as if it
never had been made. To save the noble Earl his
land. To save the noble Earl from the intolerable
hardship of undergoing the onerous lot of his Majesty's subjects.
He is no longer present: In person he is no longer present: but his influence is
not the less active and irresistible. An opposition is now
brought forward, grounded in objections already
heard and negatived by the 12 Judges, whose
decision the Lords of the Treasury are
called upon to overthrow. one. They do accordingly
prepare dispose themselves to overthrow it: but the claims of the protector
of the establishment to whom they the first Lord of the Treasury and the principal Secretary of State had pledged themselves to give this
very land, to whom they had declared over and
over again he should have the land, stare them
in the face. This man's mouth was therefore to be
stopped, and it is stopped accordingly. He
asks £6,000 a year of the public money, and £6,000 a year
of the public money is given him. The Contracting Jailer gets his
sop: the noble Earl lands convert to Administration⊞ ⊞ preserves preserves himself himself from the hardship of bearing not being exempted from the common lot of subjects: the statute prospect
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draft of letter 988, vol. 5 |
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