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'' | <p>can <hi rend="underline">not</hi> be sure that you can do it at <hi rend="underline">all</hi>: you are<lb/> pretty sure you <hi rend="underline">cannot</hi> do it all: you have great reason to<lb/> apprehend, that if you could do it all, you could not do<lb/> it for <hi rend="underline">years</hi>, and nobody can say how <hi rend="underline">many</hi> years — Can <lb/> your Lordships hesitate?</p> | ||
<note>35.<lb/> The hardship<lb/> it would be productive<lb/> of to Memorialist<lb/> is<lb/>heavy, certain,<lb/> & irremediable</note> | |||
<p>Another think your Lordships may be perfectly sure<lb/> of, is the certain hardships, to say no more, and that altogether<lb/> irremediable, which will be turning on while your<lb/> Lordships are looking out in expectation of an Act, which <lb/> it is in nobody's power to perform. While your Lordships<lb/> sit waiting, the fortune of your Memorialist, as your<lb/> Lordships have seen, is consuming, inevitably consuming,<lb/> till sooner or later, but long before any Land has<lb/> been put into his hands, his means of making use<lb/> of it are gone.</p> | |||
<p>As to <hi rend="underline">compensation</hi> for the delay, be it longer<lb/> or shorter, an <hi rend="underline">adequate</hi> one is impossible: since of<lb/> eventful profits prevented, however real, and however<lb/>considerable they would have proved, no account could<lb/>be taken for any such purpose. The following items,<lb/> however enormous, would fall enormously short of being adequate.<lb/> Reimbursement for what your Memorialist is already <del>in</del><lb/> in advance, £6000 and upwards besides Interest: for<lb/>Materials and Work, bespoke and in hand, which he<lb/>will soon be called upon to pay for, not much less: for<lb/> what it is consting him to keep his Men together,<lb/> £2,000 a year: and this leaves your Memorialist's<lb/>Brother without the smallest compensation, either<lb/> for the loss of his situation abroad, or for the <lb/> private establishment at Home, which has been<lb/>sacrificed to this public one. To take time<lb/> for <sic>shewing</sic> unprecedented favour, Your <lb/> Lordships will never set out with doing<lb/> so certain, so heavy, and so irremediable<lb/> an injustice.<lb/><add>Could</add></p> | |||
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can not be sure that you can do it at all: you are
pretty sure you cannot do it all: you have great reason to
apprehend, that if you could do it all, you could not do
it for years, and nobody can say how many years — Can
your Lordships hesitate?
35.
The hardship
it would be productive
of to Memorialist
is
heavy, certain,
& irremediable
Another think your Lordships may be perfectly sure
of, is the certain hardships, to say no more, and that altogether
irremediable, which will be turning on while your
Lordships are looking out in expectation of an Act, which
it is in nobody's power to perform. While your Lordships
sit waiting, the fortune of your Memorialist, as your
Lordships have seen, is consuming, inevitably consuming,
till sooner or later, but long before any Land has
been put into his hands, his means of making use
of it are gone.
As to compensation for the delay, be it longer
or shorter, an adequate one is impossible: since of
eventful profits prevented, however real, and however
considerable they would have proved, no account could
be taken for any such purpose. The following items,
however enormous, would fall enormously short of being adequate.
Reimbursement for what your Memorialist is already in
in advance, £6000 and upwards besides Interest: for
Materials and Work, bespoke and in hand, which he
will soon be called upon to pay for, not much less: for
what it is consting him to keep his Men together,
£2,000 a year: and this leaves your Memorialist's
Brother without the smallest compensation, either
for the loss of his situation abroad, or for the
private establishment at Home, which has been
sacrificed to this public one. To take time
for shewing unprecedented favour, Your
Lordships will never set out with doing
so certain, so heavy, and so irremediable
an injustice.
Could
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