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' | <p>The Duke of Portland's thoughts — or pretended thoughts —<lb/>upon the abstract question of expediency and inexpediency —<lb/>these thoughts then, and not the tenor of the law, were, according<lb/>to this his most explicit declaration, intended to be <lb/>taken by him as the standard of his measures — and to<lb/>make sure of the object — recommended by him, in this letter,<lb/>to the Lords of the Treasury, as a standard for theirs.</p> | ||
<p>A man whose meaning it were to ground his construction<lb/>of an Act on the supposed intention of it, would have<lb/>taken some notice of it, were <add>it</add> only in the way of allusion<lb/>to the words of it: and this done, <hi rend="underline">in the case of two equally<lb/>applicable constructions</hi>, considerations of expediency or inexpediency<lb/>might — I am perfectly ready to <sic>admitt</sic> — neither unusually<lb/>nor improperly, have been called in to turn the scale. Not<lb/>so the Duke of Portland. His own notions on the abstract question<lb/>of expediency are the only standard he vouchsafes to refer to<lb/>for his measures: and, to <sic>shew</sic> the foundation of those notions,<lb/>he gives his reasons: and these reasons are composed of that<lb/>matchless tissue of absurdities, of which Your Lordship has<lb/>already seen but too much in another place: <add>I mean</add> the argument<lb/>about the tendency of the Penitentiary prison to spoil the other<lb/> Gaols: an equisite production of Machiavellian policy — a device<lb/>of which he is so vain (for vanity, in despite of prudence,<lb/>could alone have betrayed him into the display of it) that to<lb/> judge from the stress laid upon it, it would have been a<lb/>disappointment to him to have seen it regarded as having<lb/>originated in any other head than his own — in any head that<lb/> had ever bore a part in the formation of the Act.<lb/><add>What</add></p> | |||
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The Duke of Portland's thoughts — or pretended thoughts —
upon the abstract question of expediency and inexpediency —
these thoughts then, and not the tenor of the law, were, according
to this his most explicit declaration, intended to be
taken by him as the standard of his measures — and to
make sure of the object — recommended by him, in this letter,
to the Lords of the Treasury, as a standard for theirs.
A man whose meaning it were to ground his construction
of an Act on the supposed intention of it, would have
taken some notice of it, were it only in the way of allusion
to the words of it: and this done, in the case of two equally
applicable constructions, considerations of expediency or inexpediency
might — I am perfectly ready to admitt — neither unusually
nor improperly, have been called in to turn the scale. Not
so the Duke of Portland. His own notions on the abstract question
of expediency are the only standard he vouchsafes to refer to
for his measures: and, to shew the foundation of those notions,
he gives his reasons: and these reasons are composed of that
matchless tissue of absurdities, of which Your Lordship has
already seen but too much in another place: I mean the argument
about the tendency of the Penitentiary prison to spoil the other
Gaols: an equisite production of Machiavellian policy — a device
of which he is so vain (for vanity, in despite of prudence,
could alone have betrayed him into the display of it) that to
judge from the stress laid upon it, it would have been a
disappointment to him to have seen it regarded as having
originated in any other head than his own — in any head that
had ever bore a part in the formation of the Act.
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