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affection with which you observed me clinging to the
notes of the Judges, few a smile from you, as if
something of affection had been betray'd by it, and
though some awkwardness of expression in a situation
rather new to me afforded I make no doubt
but too good a warrant for any suspicions you
might have conceived at the time, you will I flatter
myself have been satisfied by this time at least,
that my reluctance to hazard any choice of my
own in competition with one that had received the
sanction of such authority was not without a practical
& intelligible cause. That if I were obliged to
look out for a new spot I should prefer leaving absolutely
to the 12 judges the choice of the spot I
was to lay out my money upon the choosing it
myself, or even that if I were obliged to stand
by the choice of others those Magistrates would be
the persons of all others whom I should wish to
commission for the purpose, is more, I trust,
than I did say, more assuredly than I could
say. But in the instance in question I knew what
their choice had been. I knew it was a good one,
and so good an one for myself as well as for the public,
that not even the privilege of making a fresh
choice of my own was ever capable of drawing off
my wishes from a ready made one which nobody could

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	103	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d17 / d18
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	copy of letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39157
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