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still exist) where nobody would ever be offended by
the nuisance, since nobody would ever see it. Yes,
my Lords: it was precisely for the sake of shutting
the door against all such scenes of irresistible
temptation & unfathomable intrigue, of irregulated
choice, of private or political favour, & undue
preference, that the original Act wisely called in to
its aid, the very collection of persons, the least exposed
to temptation and to suspicion, that the
country affords, and these are the persons whose
opinions your Lordships have been sollicited to set
aside.
But being warranted then at least, to adopt the
choice humbly pray'd for by your Memorialist,
and precluded, by considerations of decorum at
least, from looking out for any other, and moreover hereby
humbly sollicted by your Memorialist to adopt
such choice, your Lordships justice stands engaged,
as your Memorialist humbly insists, to a compliance
with such his prayer. Your Lordships
justice stands engaged, in the first place by the
faith of the treaty, in pursuance of which the late
statute was brought in. — By the treaty, Administration
stood engaged to your Memorialist, to
fixation the spot stipulated for by him, if
authorized
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