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<p>Now then, Sir, in addition to what I was observing<lb/>to M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Long with regard to the improbability<lb/>of Administration according to any proposal,<lb/>for an adequate indemnification to me, for the loss<lb/>of the spot that had been engaged to me, an improbability<lb/>grounded on the impropriety of any<lb/>such arrangement on the part of Administration,<lb/> I will beg leave to consider it with regard to the<lb/>propriety of the part which <hi rend="underline">I</hi> should have to act<lb/>in such a business. As to this matter, Administration,<lb/> Sir, are certainly the judges, and in the<lb/> first instance the sole judges of what it may be<lb/>proper for them to grant: but I, Sir, in my humble<lb/>sphere am a proper judge, and in the first<lb/>instance at any rate the sole judge, <add>(M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Long will not dispute it)</add> of what it may<lb/>be fit for me to sue for.</p> | |||
<p>Be pleased, Sir, for a moment to consider in<lb/>what light such a transaction would <sic>shew</sic> itself<lb/>to the world; and that, not to the censorious part<lb/>only, but, I should much fear, to the discerning<lb/>part of it in general, even the candid part not<lb/>excepted.</p> | |||
<p>A spot of land, that had been pitched upon<lb/>for a public establishment, and, by the <del><gap/></del><lb/>most <del>un</del>exceptionable and most competent tribunal<lb/><add>in</add></p> | |||
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Now then, Sir, in addition to what I was observing
to Mr Long with regard to the improbability
of Administration according to any proposal,
for an adequate indemnification to me, for the loss
of the spot that had been engaged to me, an improbability
grounded on the impropriety of any
such arrangement on the part of Administration,
I will beg leave to consider it with regard to the
propriety of the part which I should have to act
in such a business. As to this matter, Administration,
Sir, are certainly the judges, and in the
first instance the sole judges of what it may be
proper for them to grant: but I, Sir, in my humble
sphere am a proper judge, and in the first
instance at any rate the sole judge, (Mr Long will not dispute it) of what it may
be fit for me to sue for.
Be pleased, Sir, for a moment to consider in
what light such a transaction would shew itself
to the world; and that, not to the censorious part
only, but, I should much fear, to the discerning
part of it in general, even the candid part not
excepted.
A spot of land, that had been pitched upon
for a public establishment, and, by the
most unexceptionable and most competent tribunal
in
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letter 988, vol. 5 |
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