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doing, and that is that if after all the reasons that have
been submitted to your Lordships on the one side, no such
reasons were to be produced on the other, the deficiency
might be supplied, by imputations highly injurious to your
Lordships Justice, and reflecting great dishonour on that part of
his Majesty's Administration which is in your hands. That
in particular it might be alledged, and, however, falsely,
yet with but too much colour of truth, that the principal,
if not only cause of such procedure, was the relation
which the question was known to bear, to the interests of
a noble Earl lately called into High Office: — as if the
consent declared on the part of His Lordship, had
either never been sincerely given, or if given, had been
retracted: — as if a private regard, for his Lordship's
declared or supposed inclinations, had been the true
though secret reason, of a procedure for which no offer
could be found: — as if, in matters of meum and teum
there were one Law for a Peer, and another for a Commoner
one Law for a member of Administration, and another Law
for the rest of his Majesty's equally loyal subject: — as if
a seat in his Majesty's Council, were made to serve as a
protection, exempting the possessor from taking his chance
in respect of those common burthens, which had been destined by
Parliament for any one on whom the lot may fall: — as
if his Majesty's Administration, were a Body, in which
whatsoever regard, had ever been manifested, for this
breach of the public service, had been overborne by the
irresistible force of personal connection and private
influence.

False as the insinuations would be, your Lordships
will not lightly encounter so specious a body of obloquy and suspicion:
your Lordships will not break through a decision of the 12 Judges, your Lordships
will

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	36-37
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	065	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f45 / f46
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	patrick colquhoun
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39119
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