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influence is not the less active and irresistible. An
opposition is now brought forward, grounded on
objections already negatived by the 12 Judges,
whose decision the Lords of the Treasury are called
upon to overthrow. They do accordingly dispose
themselves to overthrow it: but the claims of the
projector of the establishment to whom the first
Lord of the Treasury and the principal Secretary
of State had pledged themselves to give this
very land, to whom they had declared over and
over again he should have the land, stare them
in the face. This man's mouth was therefore to
be stopped: and it is stopped accordingly. He
asks £6,000 a year, and £6,000 a year is
given him. The contracting Jailor gets his sop:
the noble convert to Administration preserves
himself from the hardship, of not being exempted
from the common lot of subjects: the prospect
of a prison is removed from the privileged purlieus
of Battersea-Rise: it costs the public no
more than £6,000 a year to produce all this accommodation:—
and thus every body is satisfied.
Such are the colours in which, according to my
humble conception, an arrangement of this stamp
would
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