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I. 8
9
The omission
was the result
— not of accident
— but of fear
and shame
Is it credible my Lord will would either or both
Secretaries give credit with your Lordship were
they p to pretend that this phenomenon — a
thing sight till now unknown in the annals of
office, was a matter of pure accident — or
honest negligence? that it had any thing
less than the f terror and the sense of necessity
for its cause? — No, none. Look at the
whole complexion of the case from the beginning
to end, and say my Lord whether
it be in the nature of the case, that an
omission like this should be the result of
accident?
No, My Lord there was not merely
the flagrant notorious falsity of the facts, there was
not merely the conspicuous business of the
contrivance to drive repel the guilty hand from
the equivocating and shuffling scrawl —
Your Lordship has seen in a former instance
what wretched shuffling could under the
shelter of impunity obtain an official signature
— there was the eye of Mr Nepean
to encounter by any one who should have
dared to set his name to it at that time.
They to not eye it for chance
they ventured it be
because as it they in
it did not destroy hope.
Nepean
the any thing
from time to time
he had not
with that.
Long shrank
from it — then for it — it was not his business a fellow but should free it and
so it was with
Now if my child says one
nor if men says t'other
So the brat was thrown
out of the street without
any body to own it.
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