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apt to fall, he were to hear, that, by virtue of some
conversation that may have passed, between gentlemen
men expressing themselves dissatisfied with the subsisting
choice on one part, and gentlemen in Administration
& in Parliament on the other, it should
have been conceived, that the faith of Administration
stood pledged to revoke the choice. Nor would such
a supposition altogether want colour from an incident
in the history of the Act, an incident of which
it bears marks upon the face of it. The act originating
solely out of the treaty with your Memorialist,
the purview of the Bill, as it was first drawn,
was accordingly confined on this head, as your Memorialist
admitts, to the individual spot in question.
What he has been informed of and also admitts
is, that the optional clause, now standing
part of the Act, and above referred to, was inserted
before the bringing in of the Bill, inserted consequently
by, or by order of, gentlemen in administration,
and that too at the suggestion of gentlemen
whose declared wish it was that the option might be
made use of for some other choice. Admitting the
facts, your Memorialist begs leave utterly to deny
the influence. Had any such engagement been entered
into, how would the Act have stood? Every
thing that related to the spot in question would
have
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