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-veyors, he was to have gone upon the wild-goose
chase as well as I.+ A wild-goose chase I call
+ This it appears
was a misapprehension
on my part.
it, because having gone upon it myself I found
it so: but this was more than he knew or could
know.
Sir, I hope, and humbly conceive, I have now
given you reasons enough, if you will be pleased
to use them; and it is with this view that I propose
printing the Memorial, that their Lordships,
in the event of their deeming it fit to accede to
the prayer respecting the Land, may, if such
should be their pleasure, order copies to be given
to the gentlemen concerned; or that in the other
event I may possess the means of justifying myself,
upon occasion, against any imputation of levity or imprudence
in the eyes of the public and my friends.
It remains for me to beg leave to intimate
to you, Sir, the necessity I feel myself under,
a necessity which can not be expressed in two distinct
language, and which is, that of declining
to propose to their Lordships any other spot as
equally "proper and convenient" with the old one; the
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