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19.
Reluctance in
the neighbourhood,
no sufficient
ground for
negativing the
existing choice

2. As to any reluctance entertained in the neighbourhood,
if any such sentiment should be found still to subsist,
although it will be, as it all along has been, a matter
of very sincere concern to your Memorialist, yet, were
it ever so much more universal and decided, the
objection afforded by it, is that sort of objection, to
which, under the acknowledged circumstances of the
case, it is impossible, as your Memorialist humbly conceives,
that your Lordships justice should conceive itself at
liberty so much as to listen, in the present instance.

Nothing, as your Memorialist, at the outset, begs
leave to assure your Lordships once for all, nothing
could be repugnant to the principles or habits of
your Memorialist, than to treat with levity or
indifference the feelings of any Individual who may
have conceived himself prejudiced by the choice, and
in particular, of the very respectable Gentlemen, on
whose part those apprehensions have manifested themselves,
in a more conspicuous degree. Sensations of this sort
have in his estimation, sensations of this sort by
whatever cause excited, have, in proportion to their
energy, an equal claim to attention and deference.
Your Memorialist is indeed free to confess, that were
he in the situation of those Gentlemen, no such
apprehensions would, as far as he can judge,
have, upon an occasion like the present found their

Identifier: | JB/118/049/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	19-21
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	049	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f13 / f14
Penner		Watermarks	coles
Marginals		Paper Producer	patrick colquhoun
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39103
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