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opponents. Had your Memorialist courage for the pursuit,
what a lash would he have to go through? What
up-hill work! What a labyrinth of negotiations! — of
negotiations of which any person at a mile's distance
might cut the thread! Indeed, my Lords, your
Memorialist has no such courage: if driven from
this his first & his last hold, nothing remains for
him but to make his bow: if the oak will not bear
him, he must submitt to his fate: it would be lost
labour to catch at straws.

It is easy, it is natural, and, on the part of gentlemen
who conceive themselves aggrieved by the choice,
it may be sufficient to say, the world is wide enough,
you will find places enough: go elsewhere,
in short any where but here. And if they may so,
so they may say without enquiry: for nothing calls
upon them to enquire. But if your Memorialist
is to be believed, who has made enquiry, & who has
been months in making it, there is no such choice.
He cant go elsewhere: there is no elsewhere in the
case.

The enquiry, as your Lordships see, would be at any
rate hardly be a short one: but a long one would,
if not manifestly necessary, be clearly indefensible.
The very act of instituting it would be an offence against
the words as well as the spirit of the Law:
for

Identifier: | JB/118/097/004 "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	097	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f43 / f44 / f45 / f46
Penner		Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39151
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