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9) On Treasury Letter
2
Proof
2. Long delays
3.
2. His preventing
my receipt of
the £1000, after
telling my [being] told of its
being ordered.
Ld Salisbury's at Millbank (the estate since purchased)
being on the carpet—"but it joins on" (says I) to Ld
"Belgrave's residence, and will not thus be an obstacle
"as in this and that and t'other instance?" The answer
was not only a simple an assurance to the contrary but
could exceed the sum with which the idea was treated
by Mr Long a sum much more expensive and impressive the
most direct and positive assurance to the contrary.
It might be so He was at that time sincere, for aught I know:
I never suppose insincerity, when I can avoid supposing
it. He had not I have no proof that at that time
a promise had been made to Ld Belgrave that I
should not have never the lands should never be put to its
apparently appropriate destined use. Meantime the fact is, that
to this hour I have not the land in a state to build upon: and
that Mr Long at the very time of promising possession
was taking measures to prevent it. The land had
remains of horses on it. Ld Salisbury offered to bring them out
for a sum certain a thousand pounds: to expedite
the business I offered to stand in the his place: Mr
Long accepted my offer, and with approbation. The
Surveyor General as I afterwards discovered reported in favour of the contract,
as a measure of evident ceremony. This was not
a favour[able] one: my offer was unknown to him:
and when afterwards I had occasion to attend him
(I speak of the acting man, not the signing
man) he had received his introductions, and offered
him advice. After I had spent months in the
Treasury passages—amidst deluge and omissions
not explicable by any visible cause, but
too extraordinary to be the result of simple incapacity,
Mr Long, on my catching him flying through a passage congratulated me in the completion
of the business: a Clerk at the same time
informed me from the Books of the existence of an
order
+ The explanation
was necessary: I had
been led thru danger,
and I had it.
So much for .
It was given with
courage: and with
protestations, such
at the time.
I even now am inclined to think
were sincere.
Mr Long himself
I am inclined to
think was not at
this time let into
the secret.
+ Mr Long constantly
invisible,
explanation impossible,
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