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damage he sees advantage: and in this opinion, as will be
seen presently, he does not stand alone. The difference,
wide as it is, may be tolerably well accounted for, even
without taking into the account the difference in the affections
through the medium of which it may be viewed.
The nature of his intended establishment being fully
known to himself and altogether unknown to those gentlemen,
it is the less wonder, if from such difference in
point of data a difference of conclusion should arise.
Another thing he knows is, that it would be a real
affliction to him, to find these his expectations disfulfilled
by the event, in any single instance: that to save himself
from such a mortification no endeavours would
be wanting on his part: and that it is not by a slight
degree of expence that such his endeavours would be
stopped. Imputing no blame to any of the gentlemen in his heart,
he never has with his lips or with his pen. Sympathising
with them in his heart, he would grudge nothing
that could serve to testify the sincerity of his
sympathy.
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The houses of the principal
Opponents are
above a mile distant.
After such an explanation, he hopes it may be
permitted to him to remark, were it only for the singularity
of the occurrence, that the gentlemen in whose
instance the dissatisfaction has display'd itself in the strongest colours are
comparatively at a distance: gentlemen close to the spot
have conceived no such disgusts or apprehensions. Your
Memorialist has had the distances measured between
the
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