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being unexceptionable on every point, but more particularly on this.

Nor would Administration itself be less exposed to obloquy
by such a change. — What is it that could thus have turned them
aside (it would be said) from the line already marked out by
impartial justice? — What but the overweening influence of
powerful individuals? After a three years search, the best possible
situation had been found out by the most competent
authority, but an Archbishop and an Earl stood in the way, &
so a less fit one was to be looked for. Ministers to have their
Villas that way: and they did not choose to have their road
darkened by such objects. Is the measure to be postponed till a
situation can be found for it which is not within the ride of a
Minister or a Lord. Its execution then is not likely to be very
speedy. — Will the new controuling body, will the Judges so
much as listen to any such instruction? If not the change
may be from the frying pan to the fire.

In proportion too as the new plan was generally
approved would the damp thus cast upon it be condemned.
When £200,000 & more of the public money was to be spent
before the smallest benefit could be reaped the situation
was not grudged. An offer as accepted which begins with
easing the nation of this load in the first instance (to say
nothing of what other advantages concur in distinguishing
the new plan from the old one,) and now the situation is too
good. — The Supervisors who were but to have taken a
peep



Identifier: | JB/119/190/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.

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119

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panopticon

Folio number

190

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002

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Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

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f5 / f6 / f7 / f8

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Notes public

ID Number

39701

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