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exhausted, your Lordships should see reason to confirm the choice,
then no sooner had your Lordships recognised the necessity of
such decision, than you would see the insufficiency of it to the
purposes of justice. A delay, no one can say to what amount,
would have taken place in regard to a measure, which ought
to have been taken immediately: an inquiry would thereby be
seen to have been inflicted, for which no compensation can be
made.

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Appearance of undue
influence which would result
from the rejection
of the existing choice.

One consideration is get behind, which, if your Memorialist
could apprehend that after what has been submitted to your
Lordships, your Lordships would refuse, or what would soon
come to the same thing, defer compliance with this his humble
application., would at least be sufficient to render him
confident that your Lordships would not take either part, at
least without the production of some distinct & specific reason
to the contrary. And that is that if after all the reasons that
have been submitted to your Lordships on the one side against
such procedure, no reason were to be exhibited in favour
of it, the deficiency might be supplied by imputations highly
injurious to your Lordships justice, & reflecting great dishonour
on that part of his Majesty's administration which
is vested in your Lordships hands. That in particular it
might be suggested & however falsely, yet with but too much
the colour of truth, that the principal, if not only cause, of
such procedure, was the relation which the question was known
to bear to the interests of a Noble Earl lately called into high
Office: — as if the consent declared on the part of his Lordship
had either never been sincerely given, or if given had
been retracted: — as if a private regard for his Lordship's declared

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