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the propriety of the part which I should have to act
in such a business. As to this matter Administration,
Sir, are certainly the judges and in the first
instance the sole judges of what may be proper for
them to grant: but I, Sir, in my humble sphere
am a proper judge, and in the first instance at
any rate the sole judge (Mr Long will not dispute
it) of what it may be fit for me to sue for.

Be pleased, Sir, for a moment to consider in
what light such a transaction would shew itself to
the world, and that not to the censorious part only
but I should much fear to the discerning part
of it in general, even the candid part not excepted.

A spot of land, that had been pitched upon
for a public establishment, by the most unexceptionable
& most competent tribunal in the kingdom
had been pronounced the fittest for the purpose,
happen to be in the tenure of a Noble person
of high rank, immense fortune, & great weight in
the scale of politics: a weight which for a course of
years he had been in the habit of throwing into
the scale of opposition. This person, being applied
to with all humility to suffer the law to take its
course, refuses & resists as long as it appears to be
in his power. Understanding from competent
authority that resistance will be unavailing, he at
length

Identifier: | JB/118/101/003 "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	101	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d9 / d10 / d11 / d12
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Notes public	copy of letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39155
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