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13 Jany 1802 Postpone
to me – another knew nothing about the matter had forgot the whole business
– another had forgot his promises distinct and special promises, and I durst
not speak of them – he was still ready to do whatever
was proper – but it was not proper to open his
mouth against a comrade who had with whom he had so lately cut off out
of the same trough plate⊞2 ⊞2 and to whom tho' he did not tell me so he was that moment looking out for a rope – not for him. In a word my Lord, if
there was not one that had what in abstract
theory wo might have been a reason, there was
not one that had not his excuse: excuses so
good in some instances, that had I been applied
to for absolution – applied to cordially and frankly
– I could not have refused it.
But were there not wider circles? ..... O yes
my Lord, but too wide. To what quarter
could a man like me be expected to look
for help? As a would-be Contractor, I was
an object of je envy, jealously and ill will: as a
contractor manqué, an object of contempt, as
a man of no-party, an object of support;
as a man evidently incapable of belonging to being made
into a party man a party, I was a man fit for nothing, and a man without
resource.
Mr Palmer had merits? such merits as no
other man in the course of Mr Pitt's domination⊞ ⊞ a domination which neither knew nor suffered any nor knew any merits but party eloquence – to which the opportunity of at length gave him of displaying his merits may be tried: – I had none. was
ever suffered to display. Mr Palmer had merits
– and what did they avail there? Mr Palmer's
were full-blown. Mine, I mean those which
some had looked from me, were at best but in the
bad: then they had been found stopped, and there it was
determined they should be crushed.
Mr Palmer had won parliamentary interest: the intelligible simple source
to
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