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24 Aug. 1802
9 July 1807
to deny fleeting sounds uttered in presence of a most confidential friend, whose
mind forgetfulness at can not be less at his command to be depended upon than
his more active and more difficult assistance.
The Duke of Portland was ever and anon
pointed to with distant reverence, as the potentate on arbiter of life
and death whose pleasure life and death—the Solomon tapestry on by whose
awful sentence my unhappy infant devoted offspring was to be
cut in two and mangled to death sacrificed: the Duke of
Portland was pointed up to as that most puissant prince
whose everchanging pleasure was at all times to have
the vigor of law—a vigor beyond and contrary to the
law of Parliament: the Duke of Portland's pleasure,
though at no time a no law to itself because incapable of binding itself was to be law above Parliament
and against me. Appalled Seeing day
light through the shade of this terrific spectre
to whom the warning cock had already begun to
crow—but says I granting the present omnipotence
of the existing Secretary of State, does not an equal
omnipotence avail his successor? They not Lord
Pelham keep entire, what the Duke of Portland had
dared to read in teram?—O, yes—the idea was
complet at by both of all four hands, as the happiest
echappatoire imaginable.
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