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Reverence, your Lordships would at least not be
forward to run counter to, or to set aside, a
decision, or if it were only an Opinion, given by such
authority under the special appointment of the Law.
Greater impartiality, less respect of Persons, more
decided preference of right to favor, more firmness
against undue influence, surely will not be looked for
elsewhere: not in the Breast of any Minister, not
even in your Lordships Board (with respect be it spoken)
not even in his Majesty's Cabinet itself. Receiving
the spot as an unexceptionable one from the hands o
the 12 Judges, certified as such after and notwithstanding
the reclamations of certain of the Inhabitants to the
contrary, your Lordships will not surely set out, in
Person at least, in quest of another spot, and that
without having any particular spot in view, without
any other object than that of avoiding the spot which
has been approved of by the 12 Judges. As little
will your Lordships be disposed to disperse yourselves
for such a purpose, to pick up what intelligence
may be to be collected in your several individual
Capacities, from this or that Friend or Dependent
at your individual Boards, or form this or that
Individual, or from the Friend or Dependant of
this or that Individual, whose wishes or apprehensions
may interest him in the Choice. Still less
will your Lordships think of sending either of
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