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I do not look upon the Duke or I do not wish the
Duke too be looked upon as a monster such as does not
exist in nature. What I do wish him to be looked
upon as a man – a weak man – a man of very ordinary
mould – and his conduct such as if it remain
unnoticed will he be but too likely to be imitated –
and which accordingly in proportion as it is likely to
be imitated if suffered and known to be suffered to
pass uncensored – calls upon Parliament for censure.

It is a point to be tried between Parliament and the legislative power
and the Executive Ministers

Administration, whether after a sanction given to a
measure of the Executive power by the legislature in and by
an imperative Act – the Ministers Executive continues master
of the measure – just as if it had not been brought by
them before Parliament – or as if the sanction instead
of being imperative were simply authoritative – The
affirmative has been maintained to me – maintained
to me in the present instance to my face – with marks
of contempt and scorn for any that ignorance that could suppose
it possible to maintain the negative: and this if I
mistake not – but should indeed think I be to find myself
to be mistaken and to have it in my power to
acknowledge my mistake – by persons now in office as
well as by those whose authority is at an end no more I wish I
.... could add their influence – is no more. and surely if it possible for the authority of Parliament
tha to be continued in the favour of the individual
who urges it and clings to it – continued by expression scorn
put upon the notion that men in office are to be considered
in the individual enclosure in question as bound by the law of
Parliament – it has been continued in a


Identifier: | JB/121/398/001
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Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

121

Main Headings

Panopticon

Folio number

398

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

Category

Text sheet

Number of Pages

1

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"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.

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Penner

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Paper Producer

C. Abbit Lees

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1799

Notes public

ID Number

001

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