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24 Aug. 1802
9 July 1800
entertained. Upon turning to the documents, it will appear
1. that no compensation even in any case was categorically
promised to me: in the next place, that in the hypothetical
position discourse on that subject, it is to the case of entire relinquishment
that the talk of compensation is confined:—confined
in by express words.
So far as above I did say: what I did not
say was that of the two Honourable Gentlemen thus jointly who were
whose associated achievement
was thus
thus vehement joining in upbraiding me for unbelief, there was
one at least who was confident in his own mind that
no such prediction would be ever verified.
A fact which I know with as full assurance
as evidence can give, was—that the sole cause of
the demonstrated reluctance obstruction operating on the Treasury, was
the promise of utter relinquishment, made, at a time on the occasion I know
of, to Lord Belgrave: and the existence of the establishment
upon any scale—original—augmented or reduced
was alike incompatible with that promise and the imaginations
that had exacted it.
Accordingly in the letter to me— the only while of
manifestations at that time had been all the manifestations that have since been made was the only one that ever intended to meet my eye; not even
compensation much less for non-establishment—much
less establishment was promised. I was to give no On both points I was called upon
to give in my proposal, but in the evident view that
neither of them (unless possibly under some miserable
pittance under the name of compensation) should be followed by attended
with any effect. If Should any thing be found
in them to act they were to be pronounced in express terms
inadmissible. Should they be appear found impregnable on all points
they were to be answered of course+ by the habitual silence.
+ as so many other
applications from the same quarter had been
answered.
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