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To Dundas
As to the disposal of the money of the proposed indemnification
money, to be sure it does not belong to me
to decide, but if the opinion of so obscure an
individual may venture to peep forth it is my
humble apprehension that at a time like this the present
some more necessary, an a use might be found
than the giving it out in indemnifications for factitious voluntary damage,
in such a way might be found for it. But if I am wrong
in this, and money must at any rate be given
out to quiet matters, the persons on whom it
might be bestowed, I should conceive, with most
propriety advantage prospect economy as well as propriety, are, – not myself whose who am so
perfectly contended with the provision of so long ago made by the law,
but to rather the gentlemen who are discontented with it.
Were a number not more than half a dozen of
them, for example picked out for this purpose, and picked out with due attention selection,
I would venture to say undertake Sir, there would not
be a man left who would ever give you any trouble.
and though I say, with most economy: for though
I confess myself but indifferently qualified for entering
into their conception of the damage, yet in their
instance a douceur of to rather less amount than the
supposed £6,000 a year, added to the or £100,000 capital, unliquidated
added to the unliquidated principal principal money which would in any instance prove insufficient ineffectual
would
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