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94-9-25
J.B. to Rt H Dundas. Sent
Hendon Middlesex Q.S.P. Sept. 25 1794
Sir, your endeavours have not yet been able to inform sufficient to provide me information
me so much as whether
a letter with the Copy of
a proposed Memorial
enclosed which
at the suggestion of
Mr Secretary Long I
took the liberty of
addressing to you to the
care of Mr Nepean, has
so much as reached your
hands.
Yesterday six weeks that It is now some six or more I forget which since I took the liberty at
the suggestion of Mr Secretary Long to leave a letter at the/your office at the Horse Guards addressed
to you, to the care of Mr Nepean. Since then I In the mean time I
have been apprehensive of two misfortunes had two apprehensions events to struggle against: The
departure of my Brother to Russia, worn out with
disappointment, and the dispersion of my men.
The former want apprehension has not yet been realized taken place: the other
has. I was have been obliged to discharge The farther greater
part of them is discharged already. To enable myself to linger on a while longer with
the small remainder, I am discharging parting with <add>have discharged household
Servants. Two are gone already: two more will following
in a few days them in a few days as soon as my rents are come in
Such is the , and the
by which I had covered myself
In the mean time
two events have presented
themselves to my apprehension.
In this state of things it would be of considerable
shall so happens that it would be of no small use to me if I could not but know of any certain a period
however distant if pr though it was but a day
before the meeting of Parliament, by which I might
depend upon having the some sort of answer for which I was to an application whatever it may
which I can not help looking upon as having some claim to one
be. My chance of prevailing me there my humble request
be. The attempt to obtain any such favour may seem
six weeks ago so importunate a visitor
idle enough: but as this is required now made it may shall can take its .
I will trouble you no farther Sir, at present
I do not know? to think it worth while
than I think so moderate a request, Sir, would
to trouble you Sir with this or any other request: but even
not be denied to me if I it were possible to obtain direct
your recollection for four points it is written, it may can go: the declared object
of the last Act of the last Session: the state of the
business under that Act: the situation my Brother
and I are in, and to whom we are beholden from
being reduced to it.
One season, the season
which the saving
of which was the sole
and declared object of
the incomplete Bill which has
passed into an Act
the second season last
since the period when
every thing was looked
upon as settled as
ripe for action, is
irretrievably gone consumed.
Whatever be the
final fate of the business
the season is irretrievably
gone. The ruin of
an individual, the distress
of another. Mere private
objects (if these have been
the objects of administration)
are thus accomplished. The
public
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