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Pencil note 1820 Feb.
To Gorssenhoof
Sir
I am much less suprized than shocked and dejected by
the state of things brought to my ear by the letter with which you
have honoured me. Natural as it was on some account that you should have been
to upon me for such a purpose, the subject <hi rend="superscript">object of your address</hi> yet on other accounts I
am the last perhaps the individual in the whole Kingdom
from by whom interferance the cause could be most exposed to injury in danger of being most
injured. Against me the unfortunate relation which it was once my ill fortune to bear I once bore to the subject
considered, against me anything I could say one of those fallacies might which in the present
state of the public human mind operate with such deplorable efficiency
might may be played off with peculiar advantage: you yourself have
been a special sufferer, and to a degree not to be forgiven by the
abuse you set your face against, therefore it is no abuse. Such
is the logic which the nature of the case furnishes, and such logic
is un in possession of being but too improper.
Another In addition the impossibility of being known at any time
to those who are punished for not knowing it there is another
property in the Common Law that is the furniture of the Courts which
a is of chief safferant to disqualify me from any such
presumption as that if regarding myself competent to give any
such opinion on that which you have been are pleased to express
a desire to receive from me. It is that of being every day
upon the charge. That which The information which you ask for you yourself
as far as I can trust on such a subject my own judgement as in a
most eminent degree competent to give: As far as I am in a condition to see, all the information All that bears upon
the subject you seem are already in possession of: condition you are
already not only in possession of it, and shure that you have but have actually
employed it to the best every advantage it is capable of. In the application of
these made to me your you have therefore reserved me for saying so
the parts that belong respectively to us. Were any one due to apply to me
for information my opinion on the subject I should say ... it would be - I can give
you an opinion of my own: it would not be worth a straw but I
can however tell you when you may have an excictent one - go to Mr Gorssonhoof.
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