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declared or supposed inclinations had been the true though
secret reason, of a procedure, for which no other could be
found: — as if in matters of meum & tuum there were one law
for a Peer and another for a Commoner: one law for a
Member of Administration and another law for the rest of
his Majesty's equally loyal subjects: as if a seat in his Majesty's
Councils were made to serve as a protection, exempting
the possessor from taking his chance in respect of those common
burthens which had been destined by Parliament for any one
on whom the let might fall: as if his Majesty's Administration
were a body in which whatever regard had once been manifested
for this branch of the public service had been overborn
by the irresistible force of personal connection & private influence

False as the insinuations would be, your Lordships will
not lightly encounter so specious a body of obloquy and suspicion:
your Lordships will not break through a decision of
twelve Judges, your Lordships will not go out of the way
to meet it. Were justice dubious, the danger of even appearing
to do injustice would turn the scale

Your Lordships see one course easy, & free from every
reproach: your Lordships see the other course exposed to
inevitable censure, & pregnant with endless trouble.

Identifier: | JB/118/123/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	35-37
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	123	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d39 / d40 / d41 / d42
Penner		Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	39177
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