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Your Lordship with the balm of tranquillity to pour
into his ear.- Cold Bath Fields Prison (Your Lordship
may be pleased to observe to him) is up already:
it is up high in favour: and - what is beyond
every thing, and without which every thing else would
be as nothing - there is no Gospel - propagating Lord-
no friend of the "great person's" to steal up the back
staircase and whisper in his ear -up or not up
the spot is too near me — it must not be made
use of.—
Let him come forward then with his offer.
(—I mean the worthy Magistrate—) It is a yet but
a hypothetical one: - let him convert it into a categorical
one: accepted or not by the County, he has
nothing to fear from great persons, so long as he
can keep himself from "flattery". — As to the £400
a Year Your Lordship and he together will be able
to find a use for it: — it will sever with in a
trifle for a place of Inspector of Prisons; to smell
at the same nosegay with the Inspector of Hulks
who will come on the carpet presently: - it will
serve for otuim cum dignitate to the declared
protegé of the worthy Magistrates, I mean the so
well protected Governor: a personage who, if he does
not do much good to a prison by governing it,
might at any rate not do much harm to it
by inspecting it at a distance.—
Another scrape indeed, it must be confessed,
my Lord, and, at first blush blush at least, a still
more serious one, is that which the worthy Magistrate
seems
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john herbert koe |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7 |
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