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Memorial
part of this noble Earl it did at one time subsist, but, overcome
doubtless by a sense of public duty, it very happily gave way.
For this purpose in the absence of the Noble Early your Memorialist
begs leave to refer to your Lordships Secretary Mr.
Long as also to the Right Honourable Mr. Dundas who after
recognizing a message to that effect as given from him to your
Memorialist by Mr. Lond was pleased to confirm it to your
Memorialist in person by eloguims on his Lordship's liberality
on that occasion, such as all who have the honour of knowing
the Noble Lord would expect to find it deserve.
2. As to any reluctance entertained in the Neighbourhood if,
any such sentiment should be found still to subsist, although it
will be as it all along has been, a matter of very sincere concern
to your Memorialist, yet were it ever so much more
universal & decided the objection afforded by it is that sort of
objection to which under the acknowledged circumstances of the
case it is impossible, as your Memorialist humbly conceives
that your Lordships justice should conceive itself at liberty so
much as to listen in the present instance.
Nothing, as your Memorialist at the outset begs leave to
assure your Lordships once for all, nothing could be more
repugnant to the principles or habits of your Memorialist
than to treat with levity or indifference the feelings of any individual
who may have conceived himself prejudiced by the
choice, and in particular of the very respectable gentlemen
on whose part those apprehensions have manifested themselves
in a more conspicuous degree. Sensations of this sort have
in his estimation, sensations of this sort, by whatever cause
excited, have in proportion to their energy, an equal claim
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