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you in Parliament or elsewhere, could have prevailed
upon you, so much as to think of departing, from an
engagement so deliberately entered into, and so repeatedly
confirmed, or of allowing claims of exemption
so deliberately and unanimously disallowed
by the 12 Judges, I can not, I say, help submitting
to you, Sir, whether the gentlemen, by whom
alone a complaint against the dispensations of
the law has been preferred, are not the first from
whom, if from my body, a claim for indemnification
should be called for.
Now, Sir, as to my declining to accept the
offer, obliging as it was, that was made me by Mr
Long, with regard to the expedition for looking out
for other land. — My expectation was, I must
confess, Sir, either that Administration, after due
consideration given to the case, would give up the idea
of any further choice, and give me the old spot
at the first word, or else that some particular spot,
such as Administration, with or without hearing the
gentlemen who oppose the existing choice had seen
reason to be satisfied with, which they thought
would be, or might be made to be, "as proper"
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