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the direct reverse of everything that is apprehended.
Your Memorialist has also the satisfaction to hear,
that several gentlemen whose abodes are, after Mr.
Savel's, the nearest to the spot and most in view of it,
either have all along been, or at least now happily are
free from those alarms, which have so unfortunately
been conceived by gentlemen at a distance.
Nor is the singularity of the contrast, between
the degree of vicinity on the part of the gentleman
concerned, and the Magnitude of their apprehensions
the only ground for noticing it. Though the worst
grounded apprehension may, so long as it lasts, be
as troublesome as the best grounded, yet it is from the
substantiality of unsubstantiality of the ground of
any such apprehension, and from thence only, that
your Lordships in quality of third persons, can form
any conclusion with regard to its continuance.
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The invalidity
of all objections to the
choice stands demonstrated
by the
decision of the 12
Judges
But can any such reluctance, however grounded
be deemed by your Lordships a sufficient warrant
for putting a negative upon the choice? — It can not
consistently with a decision of the 12 judges: it can
not consistently with the faith of contracts, it can
not, as your Lordships will see, consistently with the
recent injunctions of the legislative.
If can not without cunning counter the that decision
of the 12 judges: a decision given in this very instance, in the
instance
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