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a little parliamentary manufacturing, administered
to it in whispers by its noble opponent, crawls into
existence. — The noble Earl is now dispatched upon
an extraordinary mission as the chosen interpreter
of the plans & sentiments of an Administrator
from which almost till the moment he had kept
at a hostile distance. The name of the noble Lord
is now no longer mentioned as an opponent to the
measure: it need not. In person he is no longer
present: but has his influence is not the less active &
irresistible. An opposition is now brought forward,
grounded on objections already negatived by the 12
Judges, whose decision the Lords of the Treasury
are now called upon to overthrow. They do accordingly
dispose themselves to overthrow it: but the claims
of the projector of the establishment to whom the
first Lord of the Treasury & the principal Secretary
of State had pledged themselves to give this
very land, to whom they had declared over & over
again he should have the land, stare them in
the face. This man's mouth was therefore to be stopped,
and it is stopped accordingly. He asks £6,000
a year, & £6,000 a year is given him. The
contracting Jailor gets his sop: the noble convent
to Administration preserves himself from the
hardship of not being exempted from the
common lot of subjects: the prospect of a prison
is
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