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3 Jany 1810
Parly Reform
Is it the £8,000 pounder? This is still too good
for almost anybody but a Lord Percival Arden: This a
great deal too much still for that the Nelson of the that Pitt.
Is it the £8 eight pounder? Now we are
come to a thing which is too little even for the fighting
man, or even the Minister thinking and talking man. Too little
for them too little? Who is it in short that it is not
too little for. Who is there that if he saw it lying
on the ground would not be ashamed to stoop for it
Lord Arden. The Valet de Chambre of Lord Arden –
I have not the honour of the gentleman's acquaintance
but and yet I think I could almost take venture upon me
to undertake for him that he would not. In short is exists
there a man of any such rank calling himself a gentleman that would?
No if you would have want a man who would drop down
to pick up such a thing as that you must look for
a Lord: and perhaps even there you might have
some time to look, unless you your eyes are fortunae enough to
pitch upon Lord Arden.
Would any Honorable man Such being the value of the possession
what must the reversion be? Would any Honorable
Who would stoop to pick up that? Would any
honorable man? no: none below a Right Honorable
nor among Right Honorables any man less beneath less than
the Right Honorable would be life-holder of the Chancellorship
of the Dutchy of Lancaster whose fitness for the business of looking at surveying milking
irons is matter of record, abolished by the most
incontestable of all
evidence
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