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To Dundas
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Sept
598
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597
Ld Spencer went on a commission of importance:
he executed it well, as well as it could be executed.
Indubitably I make no doubt of it. But is it so clear
that nobody wa could it have been so clear beforehand
have been so clear, that nobody else was
capable of executing it so well? Ld Malmsbury
for instance, Ld St Helens, or Ld Elgin? These
were tried men: two of them veterans: all of them
veterans in comparison of Ld Spencer. Would
Ld Malmsbury, would Ld St Helens, would
Ld Elgin have stipulated as a preliminary
that £ 36,000 should be given for nothing to Mr
Duncan Campbell, that the course of law in
matters of meum and tuum should be disturbed,
that the a decision of the 12 Judges should be
set at nought, that the authority hand
of Parliament should
be profaned by a law be employed in the
meant for nothing fabrication of
but waste paper
that engagements, those engagements:
than which surely none were ever more deliberate,
should be violated, an individual brought plunged into
distress by the violation to the distress of an
individual and to the ruin of another?
Sir these are things will must that will find their way: it
is impossible to prevent it. Eyes may be closed against them: but ears can not —
at least be closed them at least
in Parliament.
If these considerations be in themselves worth
your while in themselves, they will not be rendered the less
so for the accident of their having been suggested
by me it is not the person who suggested them
that will render them otherwise indifferent. In taking the liberty
of
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