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hardly be a short one: but a long one would, if not
manifestly necessary, be clearly indefensible. The very act
of instituting it, would be an offence, against the words
as well as the spirit of the Law. For by the words of
the Act at the very opening of it, your Lordships are
not only empowered but "required" to do one of two things
and that"soon": or as soon after the passing thereof as Conveniently
"may be" - "to fix" either "upon the said piece or pieces of Ground"
or "else upon" some other as convenient and proper spot:

Your Lordships will be pleased to observe: it is not any
body else who is bound to find that other convenient and
proper spot; it is not your Memorialist, it is your
Lordships therfore, who are to find it, it is your Lordships
who are to have found it already, if there be one. If the
plan of it does not lie already upon your Lordships table, your
Lordships, in waiting for it, would run counter to the
requisition of the Act. For the Act which describes the
present spot, and gives your Lordships the option of it,
is already upon your Lordships table: and, knowing of
that spot, which the Act has pronounced "convenient",
and at least "as convenient" as any other, and knowing of
no other, if your Lordships do not take that, you do not
perform ehat the Act requires, you do not make
your choice "as soon after the passing thereof as
"conveniently may be". In vain would any one Say to
your Lordships, Wait a little, and He shew your a fitter
Spot: a fitter spot does not exist: a spot as convenient
and proper the Act supposes may possibly be found:
but of a spot still more convenient and proper, it does
not so much admit of the existence.

What the Act then requires of your Lordships, is to do
one or other of two things, and that as soon as conveniently
may be. The one of your Lordships are sure you can do, and
that with the most perfect convenience, the Instant this
Memorial shall have been read: the other, your Lordships

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	35
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	064	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f43 / f44
Penner		Watermarks	coles
Marginals		Paper Producer	patrick colquhoun
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39118
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