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To Dr Small

As the world judges, one upon examination
and nine hundred, and ninety-nine upon authority<add>trust</add> the declaration of your
opinion upon any point of legislation would be worth
I wont pretend to guesssay how many votes: but
the declaration of your opinion in favour
of a side to which conviction and candour
had brought you over from the opposite one,
would be worth at least twice or thrice as
many: in under such circumstances the authority
of the converter would tell for little in comparison
of that of the proselyte, especially
such a proselyte. We should have the Irish
Chancellor of the Exchequer abjuring his annual
motion in the face of the House, and Ld
Hawkesbury who they say it has been said is Mr Pitts
tutor in this wise business, quietly and silently
putting his papers and calculations
into the fire.

If there you agree with me n looking
upon this as a most pernicious measure you
would like me be glad to see it failed put an end to
and the declaration for that purpose the acknowledgement of your opinion on a subject
on which your you have made so much and
so honourably your own, is an expedient to the use of which I

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Folio number	175	Info in main headings field
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Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / / f8
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Notes public	letter 702, vol. 4	ID Number	56995
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