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length testifies his acquiescence: & elogiums are now
bestowed upon him for a facility which his Superior
in tenure the Archbishop of York had manifested
a twelvemonth before, & at the first word: in
the course of this business the Noble Earl finds reasons
for accepting a seat in Administration. He
now retracts his acquiescence. Viewing the proposed
establishment from this new elevation, he regards
it again with a disapprobation of which he makes
no secret. He terms the plan speculative & visionary:
and without vouchsafing to see what the
Ministers who thought it otherwise had seen of it,
he does what depends upon him to make it so.
Being himself a party, he scruples not to stand
up against it as a judge. He stands up against
it & stands alone. He stops it in his own house:
he stops it for reasons of which not even that house,
much less the public are let into the confidence. He
gets a Q put to it: and this Q consigns it to
oblivion for weeks, for weeks after the time when
according to the representation one of his Majesty's
Secretaries of State was pleased to move
to the Author of the plan, the delay of a day
might have been fatal to it. Another noble person,
observing the Bill at the last gasp, and ready to
sink under this treatment, forces the attention of Administration
to the subject, & thus the Act after
a

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	101	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d9 / d10 / d11 / d12
Penner		Watermarks
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Notes public	copy of letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39155
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