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as habitual in their own instance, and with numbers
whom they would have named. – Confront My Lord
– do my Lord have the justice to confront this silence,
with the sort of interrogativeness which throughout
the whole course of the Report just quoted was
exercised upon me.
For a foundation ground was to be made for the
assurance that, defective as it is in its present state of the
Hulk system is not even in its present state is not
as bad as to be incorrigible: is not so bad, but that it
ought to be preserved: a measure which some persons
who might require to be consulted, might have been apt
to make objections to, if in the character of once prevalent
howsoever for the present suppressed or not suppressed
practices, the irregularities in question had been suffered
to come to light. – Certificates and so forth of the
capability of the system were accordingly obtained and printed
in the Appendix. – Obtained and from whom? – From
all persons interested in possession or hope in the continuance
and extension of it: certificates some it is true from
neutrals but others from official persons bearing testimony
to their own merits.
For strengthening this foundation the next thing
was to manifest the impartiality and candour of Honourable
Gentlemen; and accordingly a confession was made
acknowledging
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