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-pled and inexhaustible fund of entertainment. Mr Savel
knows it will be an amusement to him: he knows it will be
a guard to him. He knows it will be the direct reverse of every
thing that is apprehended. Your Memorialist has also the
satisfaction to hear, that several gentlemen whose abodes, are
after Mr Savel's, the nearest to the spot, and most in view of
it, either have all along been, or at least now happily are,
free from those alarms, which have so unfortunately been
conceived by gentlemen at a distance.
Nor is the singularity of the contrast between the degree
of vicinity on the part of the gentlemen concerned and
the magnitude of their apprehensions the only ground for
noticing it. Though the worst grounded apprehension
may, so long as it lasts, be as troublesome as the best
grounded, yet it is from the substantially or unsubstantiality
of the ground of any such apprehension, and
from thence only, that your Lordships in quality of
third persons, can form any conclusion with regard to
its continuance.
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The invalidity of all
objections to the choice
stands demonstrated
by the decision of the
12 judges.
But can any such reluctance, however grounded, be
deemed by your Lordships a sufficient warrant for putting
a negative upon the choice? It can not consistently
with a decision of the 12 Judges: it cannot consistently
with the faith of contracts: it cannot as your Lordships
will see, consistently with the recent injunctions of the
legislature.
It cannot without running counter to the decision
of
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