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for reasons that I have given I could not help
looking upon (for reasons that I have given) as
a most powerful obstacle to the reception of any
such plan in England. The book It was is an
8vo of about 250 pages. The book (to which
I did thought it not decent to set my name to, nor
prudent at the outset at least to avow it, has been met with some success.
It has been attributed to 5 or 6 of our first-rate
geniuses. To Lord Mansfield, Lord Camden, Mr
Dunning; Mr Gibbon author of the History of
the decline of the Roman Empire; Mr Lind,
author of the Polish Letters on the State of Poland,
the Remarks on the Acts of the 13th Parliament,
and the Answer to the Declaration of the Congress.

Dictionary Jonson was sure of it's being Dunning's.
Others who were more in the secret were
knew it to be the joint production of Dunning
and Lord Camden. Lord Mansfield intimated
to two or three persons a wish to become
acquainted with the Author:⊞ ⊞ but the Author thought that honour premature. Mr Pulteney known
to the great world by being the Auth Inheritor
of the Bath estate, and now within these few weeks to the world of letters
by being the having written a very sensible
pamphlet within these few weeks on the American controversy trouble went to
the one of the Booksellers to ask who was the Author:
for he wanted to give him a Brief. The
Author's answer was respectful but short: "that he
"took no briefs". Lord North I find has read it
and

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	105	Info in main headings field	letter to foster petersburgh
Image	003	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 248, vol. 2	ID Number	56925
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