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(Your Lordship may venture to assure him) is the likeliest place for | (Your Lordship may venture to assure him) is the likeliest place for | ||
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finding what he wants . | finding what he wants . Years ago he would <del>restrain vice & improve | ||
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<gap/> without adding to County rates would</del> have made his appearance | |||
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had there been any such person in existence . An A<del>c</del>ct of | |||
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Parliament for doing all this — an establishment which in | |||
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the opinion of Parliament would do all this — would restrain | |||
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vice and improve morals without adding to the County rates— | |||
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has by Parliament been ordered to be set up for above these | |||
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8 years . Whatever be the thing needful join will to power | |||
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and the thing is done . Power for this there has been all this | |||
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time beyond dispute in a certain place :- Duty there has | |||
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always been : | |||
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"I verily believe , to expend from the public purse
"four thousand pounds in any way more beineficial
"to the community than that which is here pointed out". *
Thus far the worthy Magistrate . - A supposition,
unquestionably though tacitly assumed in the hypothetical
offer thus made by him , is — that on the other
part some regard would be paid to the ruler of
common honesty ; that the County would not be made
bankrupt to him , as Parliament has been made
to me : and that after his proposal had been
accepted , his capital with the concurrence of the
acceptors as advanced upon the faith of it , and Acts
of Parliament , if necessary , obtained for it , he would
not have to see the execution of it set down in petto
for the Greek calends , by any such person as the
predecessor of the "great person" he is so afraid of
flattering — not to speak of successors . — To the
not add to the County rates the worthy Magistrate's own imagination
(Your Lordship may venture to assure him) is the likeliest place for
finding what he wants . Years ago he would restrain vice & improve
without adding to County rates would have made his appearance
had there been any such person in existence . An Acct of
Parliament for doing all this — an establishment which in
the opinion of Parliament would do all this — would restrain
vice and improve morals without adding to the County rates—
has by Parliament been ordered to be set up for above these
8 years . Whatever be the thing needful join will to power
and the thing is done . Power for this there has been all this
time beyond dispute in a certain place :- Duty there has
always been :
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john herbert koe |
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1800 |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7 |
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