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in the kingdom, had been pronounced the fittest for
the purpose, happens to be in the tenure of a noble
person of high rank, immense fortune, and great
weight in the scale of politics: a weight which for
a course of years he had been in the habit of
throwing into the scale of opposition. This person,
being applied to with all humility to suffer the
law to take its course, refuses, and resists as long
as it appears to be in his power. Understanding
from competent authority that resistance will be
unavailing, he at length testifies his acquiescence;
and eulogiums are now bestowed upon him for a
facility, which his superior in tenure, the Archbishop
of York had manifested a twelvemonth
before, and at the first word. In the course of
this business, the Noble Earl finds reasons for accepting
a seat in Administration. He now retracts
his acquiescence. Viewing the proposed establishment
from this new elevation, he now regards
it again with a disapprobation, of which
he makes no secret. He terms the plan "speculative
and visionary"; and without vouchsafing
to see what the Ministers who though it otherwise
had seen of it, he does what depends
upon him to make it so. Being himself a party, he

Identifier: | JB/118/071/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	071	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d11 f7 / d12 f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39125
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