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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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