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apt to fall, he were to hear, that, by virtue
of some Conversation that may have passed, between
Gentlemen expressing themselves dissatisfied with
the subsisting choice on one part, and Gentlemen
in Administration and in Parliament on the
other, it should have been conceived, that the faith
of Administration stood pledged to revoke the
choice. Nor would such a supposition altogether
want colour from an incident in the History of
the Act; an incident, of which it bears marks
upon the face of it. The Act originated solely out
of the treaty with your Memorialist: the purview
of the Bill, as it was first drawn, was accordingly
confined, on this head, as your Memorialist admits,
to the individual spot in question. What he has
been informed of and also admits, is, that the
optional Clause, now standing part of the Act, and
above referred to, was inserted before the bringing
in of the Price, inserted consequently by, or by
order of, Gentlemen in Administration; and that
too, at the suggestion of Gentlemen, whose declared
wish it was that the option might be made use
of for some other choice. Admitting the Facts,
your Memorialist begs leave utterly to deny the
inference. Had any such engagement been entered
into, how would the Act have stood? Every thing
that related to the spot in question would have
been struck out. Instead of that, how does it stand?
What relates to the spot in question retains the
foremost place in the Act, and occupies the greatest
part of it: even a Copy of the Verdict of the Jury,
introduced for the purpose of ascertaining the parcels
keeps its place in the preamble. Meaning to preclude
your Lordships from fixing upon this spot, would
Administration have offered it in the name of

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	30
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	060	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f35 / f36
Penner		Watermarks	coles
Marginals		Paper Producer	patrick colquhoun
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39114
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