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present to my mind than they could be to his, (not to mention
his own situation overwhelmed as was but too visible with
business,) I would take that charge upon myself. It is to this
circumstance that your Lordship owes the being addressed on this
public occasion by a private hand which has not the honour
to be known to you.

Under this disadavantage, though it was impossible for me to
decline a business which is so much my own, I could not
but feel no small degree of embarassment. The compliance I am
thus reduced to the necessity of asking is a favour, a very essential
and valuable favour, and to which in my personal capacity
I can not make the smallest title. With regard indeed to the mere passing
of the a Bill so supported and so much in course,, a Bill which subjects the Proprietors to no obligation
to which they have not already been subjected by the former Act, and
of which the effect is confined to the alteration of a circumstance
altogether foreign to their interests, it would be affectation in me
to express any doubt of what would be done by Parliament, or to pretend

Identifier: | JB/541/398/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541.
Date_1	1793-08-11	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	541	Main Headings
Folio number	398	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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