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the language that would naturally be held by Gentlemen
in Administration on such an occasion) You
suppose that other spots may be found equally proper
& convenient: we dont know that there are other
spots we should think so, we dont know that there
are not: we dont know that there are other spots
which the Contractor would think so, or could be
brought to think so, we dont know that there are
not: but in the mean time the option can at any
rate do no harm: and, as you desire it, we will
insert it. Such and such alone was the language
of prudence & good faith: such & such alone was
the language equally consistent with the engagements
to one party, & with the wishes of the
other: it therefore actually was the language of
Administration: the conclusion is a necessary
one: this & this alone was the fair & the only
construction of whatever words the occasion could
have called for.
But, supposing for argument sake, it had,
on that occasion, been the intention of the Ministers
to put a negative on the existing spot, and that
intention ever so decided, and ever so explicitly declared
— What follows? — that by one of those inadvertencies
to which men in high office, and overwhelmed
as the gentlemen in question then were
with
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