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19 Feby 1802 After F8 15 Connect Observ §8 Establishment 7
10
2. Audience of King
King refuses to bow
to the Statute Book
gives his own "conceptions"
— promises to receive
J.B.'s paper of
Observations —
— and not to send
his letters to the
Treasury, till
afterwards
At my second audience Mr King display'd
those unpleasantly had had received sufficient
instruction to display those principles which
Your Lordship will see aor stamped in such illustrious characters, upon
a letter of the Duke of Portland. Finding them
as wide from my own wishes, my purpose as they were from
the law of the land, I ventured with becoming
deference to propose, that the latter standard
should be opened and referred, turned to and consulted then and there,
for greater certainty. Mr King could not be
prevailed upon to see either the necessity or the
use of any such reference. His oft own "conceptions"
were so and so: he had no objection
to the repeating them as often as I chose pleased to hear
them: but as to the looking any farther, it was
a search that seemed to him presented itself to him altogether useless.
Finding the conversation growing warm though the
warmth was altogether solely on one side, I tho it
seemed to me that no good no further good could result from
the continuation of it. It had been suggested to
me as a point of prudence not to open risk
myself to any by any unnecessary
opposition to the his resistance the exerting any
I had heard him
spoken of as one
who understood
being angry, and
who was not at least as unready
at that as at any
thing else.
sentiment of displeasure on the part of a gentleman
on whose complacency I had so much at stake
lest the effect of it should harm should come from it become sensible to me.
I had already known from him that his engagement
did not admitt of a full description at that time. I
took
Identifier: | JB/121/050/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.
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