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confident that your Lordships would not take either
part, at least without the production of some distinct
& specific reason to the contrary. And that tis
that if after all the reasons that have been submitted
to your Lordships on the one side against
such procedure, no reason were to be exhibited in
favour of it, the deficiency might be supplied
by imputations highly injurious to your
Lordships justice, & reflecting great dishonour on
that part of his Majesty's Administration which
is vested in your Lordships hands. That in particular
it might be suggested & however falsely, yet
with but too much colour of truth, that the principal,
if not only cause of such procedure was
the relation which the question was known to bear
to the interests of a noble Earl lately called into
high office. — as if the consent declared on the
part of his Lordship had either never been sincerly
given, or if given had been retracted: — as
if a private regard for his Lordships declared or
supposed inclinations had been the true through
secret reasons, of a procedure, for which no other
could be found: — as if in matters of meum &
tuum there were one law for a Peer & another
for
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