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the fund created for the benefit of their nicer neighbours.
But I bet pardon for applying so disrespectful
an epithet as that of whimsical to such of
the gentlemen as have the misfortune to be undiscontented,
for, if I have not been misinformed, you
Sir, according to your declarations would as well as
Mr Nepean have been of the undiscontented party
you had been in their place. Convinced that under
these circumstances, had they been all present to your
mind, nothing but the importunity of such of the
gentlemen whom you can not avoid seeing, & who
have inevitable access to you in Parliament or elsewhere,
could have prevailed upon you so much as
to think of departing from an engagement so
deliberately entered into & so repeatedly confirmed,
or of allowing claims of exception so deliberately
& unanimously disallowed by the 12 Judges, I can
not I say help submitting to you, Sir, whether
the gentlemen by whom alone a complaint against
the dispensation of the law has been preferred, are
not the first from whom, if from any body, a
claim for indemnification should be called for.
Now, Sir, as to my declining to accept the offer,
obliging as it was, that was made me by Mr
Long, with regard to the expedition for looking out
for
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