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1 Apr 1802
Dispensing Power
But why says Your Lordship (for I can not
expect to find in Your Lordship a willing censor of Your
Lordships most noble President and Colleague) why
says Your Lordship produce this letter as a proof evidence of a criminal intention, when the intention which
you impute might supposing it entertained and supposing
it criminal, have been carried into effect altogether
as easily without it?
My Lord – in the first place thus much is indeed true with submission
the intention might have been carried into effect
without this individual letter – without any letter
at all from the Duke of Portland – but it is not
true that it could have been carried into effect without
that course of perfidy and treachery or at
lease that course of palpably unjustifiable delay and studied delay procrastination and secret but
procrastination studied elaborate obstruction of which that helps to compose make up the
evidence.
I have already shown submitted to Your Lordship the reasons
why the authority requisite to give a legal sanction to the relinquishment
could not commodiously if at all have
been obtained from Parliament: therefore it was that
rather than be altogether without a sanction, the
Treasury called in the Duke of Portland, and from
him th obtained that sort of mesh sanction – the
illegal sanction which was afforded to them by the
series chain of letters of which this was the first – of which
this letter still constitutes a link, glad as they doubtless would
be to get rid of it.
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Identifier: | JB/121/438/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.
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438 |
Dispensing power |
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"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.
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