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26 March 1802
With the purest intentions, how what an expense of
care, what an expense of words – does it not require, to
render pare down the import of words communicate with to the
exact line of truth! In saying that putting
a negative a saying that it with all he had has written
Your Lordship has seen about compensation it never was the real intention of the Honourable Gentleman that
any compensation such date should have ever have reached found its way into
]my hands (though if I held out to receive it, I should
not expect to find the proposition at ecchoed
with compleat mathematical precision even by the still small voice of that inward
without monster who in whatever state of
must still I think exist even in the breast
of Mr Long. Had Mr Long things been brought
to that pass (to which however they would not never would have been
brought) for Mr Long to have given me a promise
of compensation, I an idea I can conceive
without much difficulty is – that he would not
have employed quite so much perseverance in the
breach of this as in the breach of so many preceding
promises. I can go further and suppose
that he in this as on other occasions he would
have been content to sit still and see the compensation
drop into my hand without any movement stirring
to interrupt it, I can go further still and
suppose that if the compen my receiving it or
not receiving it depended upon his taking from my on his part upon some
hand such effort as that of a single signature – that
with
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