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<note>19. <lb/> Reluctance in<lb/> the neighbourhood,<lb/> no sufficient<lb/> ground for<lb/>negativing the<lb/> existing choice</note> | |||
<p>2. As to any reluctance entertained in the <hi rend="underline">neighbourhood</hi>,<lb/> if any such sentiment should be found still to subsist,<lb/> although it will be, as it all along has been, a matter<lb/> of very sincere concern to your Memorialist, yet, were<lb/> it ever so much more universal and decided, the<lb/> objection afforded by it, is that sort of objection, to<lb/> which, under the acknowledged circumstances of the<lb/> case, it is impossible, as your Memorialist humbly conceives,<lb/> that your Lordships justice should conceive itself at<lb/> liberty so much as to listen, in the present instance.</p> | |||
<p>Nothing, as your Memorialist, at the outset, begs<lb/> leave to assure your Lordships once for all, nothing<lb/> could be repugnant to the principles or habits of<lb/> your Memorialist, than to treat with levity or<lb/> indifference the feelings of any Individual who may<lb/>have conceived himself prejudiced by the choice, and<lb/> in particular, of the very respectable Gentlemen, on<lb/> whose part those apprehensions have manifested themselves,<lb/> in a more conspicuous degree. Sensations of this sort<lb/> have in his estimation, sensations of this sort by<lb/>whatever cause excited, have, in proportion to their<lb/> energy, an equal claim to attention and deference.<lb/> Your Memorialist is indeed free to confess, that were <lb/> he in the situation of those Gentlemen, no such<lb/> apprehensions would, as far as he can judge,<lb/> have, upon an occasion like the present found their</p> | |||
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19.
Reluctance in
the neighbourhood,
no sufficient
ground for
negativing the
existing choice
2. As to any reluctance entertained in the neighbourhood,
if any such sentiment should be found still to subsist,
although it will be, as it all along has been, a matter
of very sincere concern to your Memorialist, yet, were
it ever so much more universal and decided, the
objection afforded by it, is that sort of objection, to
which, under the acknowledged circumstances of the
case, it is impossible, as your Memorialist humbly conceives,
that your Lordships justice should conceive itself at
liberty so much as to listen, in the present instance.
Nothing, as your Memorialist, at the outset, begs
leave to assure your Lordships once for all, nothing
could be repugnant to the principles or habits of
your Memorialist, than to treat with levity or
indifference the feelings of any Individual who may
have conceived himself prejudiced by the choice, and
in particular, of the very respectable Gentlemen, on
whose part those apprehensions have manifested themselves,
in a more conspicuous degree. Sensations of this sort
have in his estimation, sensations of this sort by
whatever cause excited, have, in proportion to their
energy, an equal claim to attention and deference.
Your Memorialist is indeed free to confess, that were
he in the situation of those Gentlemen, no such
apprehensions would, as far as he can judge,
have, upon an occasion like the present found their
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