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the little rus in urbe that you saw satisfies me:
if it did not, the supposed £6,000 a year or
some such sum which I beg leave to decline accepting
would, I suppose, be sufficient to procure
me a site for a Villa not even to the so much
envied one so highly prised by the Noble Earl,
who neither intends it for his own residence, nor
for want of certainty of tenure has it in his power
to adapt in it that quality to the residence of
others. But what an annuity of £6000 a year
would not purchase for me were it all clear gain
is that peace of mind & honest pride which I
must bid adieu to were I to betray my trust at the
instant of accepting it, by sacrificing in so essential
a point, the manifest & acknowledged interests
of the public service.

I say, acknowledged: for really, Sir, about the
importance of the circumstance of vicinity to the
capital as the great seat of inspection is not an
opinion of my own starting: it is no new-fangled
concept of mine: it has been without any exception
that I know of the opinion of every man who
has ever turned his thoughts, & great number of
very respectable men have turned their thoughts,
to this part of the subject. It was the opinion of
(whatsoever difference might arise on the application

of

Identifier: | JB/118/102/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	102	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d13 / d14 / d15 / d16
Penner		Watermarks
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Notes public	copy of letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39156
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