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<p>24 Aug. 1802</p> | |||
<note>9 July 1801</note> | |||
<p>undergone, <add>and at any time of life</add> it was a matter <add>an <gap/> </add>I could not <sic>submitt</sic> to to<lb/> | |||
see a measure held up for so many years as a definitive<lb/> | |||
one converted in this way into a measure of experiment<lb/> | |||
I was asked what difference it could make to me, reasoning<lb/> | |||
as I should of course the most liberal compensation for<lb/> | |||
every reduction that should be made.</p> | |||
<p>My answer was 1. That I saw no reason<lb/> | |||
whatsoever for saddling the public with any such <sic>burthen</sic> that<lb/> | |||
I did not choose to <del>be instrumental because</del> be made <add>an instrument of</add> a burthen<lb/> | |||
to the public in any shape:—that adequate compensation<lb/> | |||
was in the nature <add>of the</add> case impossible: that <del>it was not</del> the<lb/> | |||
Treasury had not at that time any legal power of affording<lb/> | |||
any on any such ground—that it did not appear to me<lb/> | |||
that any good ground for any such <sic>expence</sic> could be made<lb/> | |||
to Parliament that in comparing with the establishment <add>upon</add> <del>under</del><lb/> | |||
any scale howsoever reduced—the idea of compensation<lb/> | |||
was altogether new to me—and that whatsoever might have<lb/> | |||
been my willingness to accept of it I had never desired<lb/> | |||
the least <add>appearance</add> symptom of any dispensation to afford it to me.</p> | |||
<p>Upon this both gentlemen joined in expressions of<lb/> | |||
astonishment, that for a moment I could suppose | |||
<del>the<lb/> | |||
intention</del> that any such reduction was not intended<lb/>to be accompanied with compensation. <add>Direct</add> Assurance <del>of<lb/> | |||
such compensation</del> was too weak a <del>mode</del> <add>form</add> for the expression<lb/> | |||
of the original and avowed determination taken on that<lb/> | |||
topic. The precise words I do not recollect: but the<lb/> | |||
manner was magisterial and to the least degree <gap/>.<lb/>The idea was—that blindness—not<lb/>to say wilful blindness—absurdity—perversity were the<lb/>course of my not seeing if <del>it were</del> <add>that were</add> really true which<lb/>was scarce credible viz: that I did not see that from the<lb/>first to <add>the</add> last no idea of reduction unaccompanied with compensation<lb/><add>entertained</add></p> | |||
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24 Aug. 1802
9 July 1801
undergone, and at any time of life it was a matter an I could not submitt to to
see a measure held up for so many years as a definitive
one converted in this way into a measure of experiment
I was asked what difference it could make to me, reasoning
as I should of course the most liberal compensation for
every reduction that should be made.
My answer was 1. That I saw no reason
whatsoever for saddling the public with any such burthen that
I did not choose to be instrumental because be made an instrument of a burthen
to the public in any shape:—that adequate compensation
was in the nature of the case impossible: that it was not the
Treasury had not at that time any legal power of affording
any on any such ground—that it did not appear to me
that any good ground for any such expence could be made
to Parliament that in comparing with the establishment upon under
any scale howsoever reduced—the idea of compensation
was altogether new to me—and that whatsoever might have
been my willingness to accept of it I had never desired
the least appearance symptom of any dispensation to afford it to me.
Upon this both gentlemen joined in expressions of
astonishment, that for a moment I could suppose
the
intention that any such reduction was not intended
to be accompanied with compensation. Direct Assurance of
such compensation was too weak a mode form for the expression
of the original and avowed determination taken on that
topic. The precise words I do not recollect: but the
manner was magisterial and to the least degree .
The idea was—that blindness—not
to say wilful blindness—absurdity—perversity were the
course of my not seeing if it were that were really true which
was scarce credible viz: that I did not see that from the
first to the last no idea of reduction unaccompanied with compensation
entertained
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