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authorized by Parliament to, and unless
precluded by Parliament from fixing on
that spot. Administration ha snot been precluded
by Parliament from fixing on that spot:
your Lordships therefore, pursuing the plans &
executing the engagements of Administration,
stand engaged to confirm the choice.
That the faith of Administration stood pledged
in this particular will hardly be denied. The continuance
of the appropriation that had been made of
the spot, stands first among the articles of which the
treaty was composed: the accession to this article, stands
in the margin of the paper, in the hand writing of Mr Pitt
or Mr Dundas: in every stage, from the first to
the last the adherence to the article it was all along supposed on both sides: no
objection was over made: in short it was for this purpose in
the first place, that the intention of Administration
to come to Parliament, was announced.
Once, as your Memorialist remembers, it was hinted, that if there
were any other spot that he preferred, he need not
conceive himself as precluded from the change.
He was thankful, but he did not hesitate. Ignorant
enough of the topography of the country, he
had been not unattentive to the history of the cause.
The four countries might have swarmed with
spots
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