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24 Mar. 1801
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2. The letter
gave an answer
to my last communication
— via
the Memorial —
but asked me
questions.
This much may in this place be observed — that
In the next place the last preceding incident — document in
the case the paper to which this letter was not, but not, though
should ought to have been an answer, was in my
questioning prostrate interroga Memorial — my prostrate, and castrated, but yet inquiring interrogating — for
petitioning is interrogating — Memorial of June 1800, my
my unarmed and defenceless and helpless
Memorial taking for granted this [the armed
one being of course suppressed and put out of the way as set not
fit in a state for slaughter —] the humbly petitioning but
still interrogating Memorial — in and by which every
thing was submitted to their Lordships pleasure
to the pleasure of the then existing ,
, Princedoms virtues, powers —
In that paper That unfortunate ill-fated, all reasons being, as Your
Lordship sees, weeded out of it by command order
was composed altogether an entire string of questions interrogations.[+] [+] On this point, on
that point — on
every point, tell
me, in pity tell me
what is their Lordships'
pleasure to
become of me. Eight
Months or eleven as your Lordship leases eleven
months were taken, to consider out of the eleven
years or eleven hundred years intended predetermined to be taken
to consider of for the consideration of the answer — and by way of
answer came in the first place, this a kind of questions
which to place them in a true light/do justice to the true import of them requires something
of a paraphrase —
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Questions of
the letter paraphrased
1 Under what terms are you willing to contract
for building a Penitentiary House, and for maintaining
the Convicts, if the measure should be
2 resolved on? — under what terms are you
willing to contract for building a Penitentiary House
for 500 persons — you who seven years ago, in
the
Answer if they had chosen to have made it for me, as
well as the question — on no terms.
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