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A spot of land, that had been pitched upon for a public establishment, and pronounced by the most unexceptionable
and most competent entrance in the kingdom had
been pronounced the fittest for the purpose happens to be on the
terms of a noble person of high rank, immense fortune,
and great weight in the scale of politics:⊞ ⊞ a weight which pitched him in the habit for a course of years he had been in the habit of throwing into the scale of opposition. That This person,
being applied to pres with all humility suffer the law to take its course
reserve refuses, and and resists as it appears to b as long as is in his power. Being supposed Understand
beg from competent authority that resistance will be unavailing, he which to opposition: and great commendations at length testifies his acquiescence & elogisms
are now bestowed upon him for an a facility
which his superior Landlord in tenure tenure as well as much the Archbishop of York
had a before, and at the first word
in a sudden In the course of this business the noble Earl finds reasons for
The noble Earl now the benefit accepting a seat in Administration.
He now retracts his acquiescence. Viewing the establishment
for the upon the destined proceed, and viewing
Viewing the proposed establishment from that situation this new elevation he
regards it again with in eyes of a favour a disapprobation of
which he makes no secret. The terms the plan speculative and visionary:3⊞ 3⊞ and without vouchsafing to see what the Ministers who thought it otherwise had seen of it, he does what depends upon him to make it so. and
depend upon him to make 2⊞ 2⊞ Being himself a party, he scruples not
to make himself stand up against it as a Judge. He scruples not to stands up against it and stands alone. He stops it in
his own house: he stops it for reasons of which not
were that house, much less the public are let into the
confidence. He gets a Q put to it: and that this
Q consigns to it to it to oblivion for weeks being for and weeks after
the time when according to the representation your
Majesty's Secretaries of state was pleased to fro reason to the Author of the plan
Sir were pleased to give the delay of a day
might have been to it. Another noble person,
observing the Bill at the last gasp, and ready to sink sink
under this treatment, forces the attention of Administration
to the subject, and thus the Act after a little parliamentary
manufacturing, administered to it in whispers by its
noble opponent, at the law crawls into existence. The
noble
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draft of letter 988, vol. 5 |
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