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the direct reverse of every thing that is apprehended.
Your Memorialist has also the satisfaction to hear, that
several gentlemen, whose abodes are, after Mr Sewel's, the
nearest to the spot, and most in view of it, either have
all along been, or at least new happily are, free from
those alarms, which have so unfortunately been conceived
by gentlemen at a distance.

Nor is the singularity of the contrast between
the degree of vicinity on the part of the gentlemen concerned
and the magnitude of their apprehensions the
only ground for noticing it. Though the worst-grounded
apprehension may, so long as it lasts, be as troublesome
as the best-grounded, yet it is from the
substantiality or unsubstantiality of the ground of any
such apprehension, and from that alone thence only, that your
Lordships, in quality of third persons, can form any
conclusion with regard to its continuance.

But can any such reluctance, however grounded,
be deemed by your Lordships a sufficient warrant
for putting a negative upon the choice? It can not
consistently with a decision of the 12 Judges: it can
not consistently with the faith of the contracts, it can not,
as your Lordships will see, consistently with the recent
injunctions of the legislature. Begin a fresh line — It can not without
running counter to the decision of the 12 Judges;
a decision given in this very instance, in the instance

Identifier: | JB/118/090/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	090	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f19 / f20 / f21 / f22
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39144
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