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the consequence of which, unless their Lordships
should be pleased either at your representation, Sir,
to grant the prayer of the Memorial in their behalf,
or else to offer me some equally proper and convenient
spot, which it is clear to me they can
not do, and which I do not expect they should
think of doing, the consequence, I say, with
respect to myself is, the relinquishment of the
whole business, and the downfall of all my hopes.
Anxious as I am to possess a place in your
good opinion, Sir, however small an one I may
be able to boast of in your favour, I hope I shall
be permitted to observe, that even in this instance
the caprice, if it be one, is not a caprice of
mine. Steering by the light of precedent and authority,
upon this occasion, as I am happy
to do upon all occasions, when I do not see
Reason clearly pointing the opposite way, a
consideration that makes the affliction of this step
sit the less heavy on me, is the reflection that
in taking it, I do but follow the course chalked
out for me by the good Howard. He too,
when thwarted in this, which in every sense he regarded

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	079	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d27 f23 / d28 f24
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39133
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