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1823 Jan¼y 30 Trip. H. to Q.A ?.9. Objections
1823 Jan¼y 30 Trip. H. to Q.A ?.9. Objections answered

Let it not be said /Objection/ Ungrounded would be the /any/ objection that this

which is proposed to you would be an act of unprovoked hostility against a

nation /State/ with which you are at peace or that by engaging in the enterprize

Your Government /Executive/ would be making itself the /an/ instrument of

private ambition.

As to hostility © if in your judgment the effect of it instead of beneficial

would be detrimental to the welfare of our State, you will not engage in it: or

at any rate if you do, the fault will be yours not mine: whatever benefit I may

reap from it persuaded as I am of its being the best if not the only chance our

State has of benefiting its condition, and preserving itself not only from the

constant misery of slavery and unceasing subjection to despotism but from the

frequently recurring miseries of civil war, I have no blame /reproach/ to take

to myself for the proposal

In no hostile feeling © in no feelings other than those of affection on my part

has it had its rise: in no sentiment of revenge /desire of vengeance/ for

injuries real or supposed or pretended. Towards /At the hands of/ the Sovereign

I have no injuries to complain of: I have nothing but kindnesses to remember. I

am in possession I flatter myself of no small share in his confidence the whole

tenor of my intercourse with him is in every part of it a proof of that

confidence: the melioration of his own condition © the preservation of his own

family are as I began with stating to you among the prime objects of my

solicitude and my endeavours. It is not therefore to hostile but to the most

affectionate feelings, /wishes/ and endeavours/ that your assistance is desired

/sought/.
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    using is the language a letter such as you could not naturally speaking have

    been written /penned/: at any rate without assistance in the article of /in

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    believes your good opinion I have heard him speak of as one of the prime number

    among the most honorable and valuable of his possessions. /It is by information

    from him, that this unbounded confidence, of which you have been seeing such

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    /friend/ of whose pen I have been fortunate enough to obtain the use: as for me,

    though in all this there is not a sentence that I could have written, neither is

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    On this occasion as on every other, whatever you do, you will have to give

    /shew/ a justification of to /in the eyes of/ your legislature. In applying to

    you for your concurrence becomes therefore my business to supply you with one,

    and that an adequate one

    Ordinarily, when by a desire of any kind, the subject of a State has been led to

    make application to a foreign State for eventual support against the Sovereign

    power of his State, complaint of grievous injury to himself has been made by

    him, whereupon by the prospect of extending its power at the expence of the

    supposed injurious government, the government so applied to has been engaged to

    grant its support. Such in particular has been the course in that which is

    become British India

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    no injury to complain of. I have no present ambition to gratify. On no throne is

    it my desire to seat myself. The object of my desire /What I wish to see/ is © a

    Commonwealth such as yours. If that can not be accomplished, then whatever comes

    nearest to it Not yet is there any part that I would not consent to act © any

    situation that I would not consent to fill, rather than that the deliverance

    which I look to should not be accomplished. My wish in this particular is and

    will continue to be to take the benefit of your advice. Scruple not to take me

    at my word. My wish is © that in regard to the distribution of power, the

    controul which public opinion has over our conduct /us/ consent may be as strong

    as possible: and that therefore every thing that passes between us in relation

    to this matter may be as public as the press can make it.

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    possible government to such extensive regions, in which nothing better than the

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    want is a station in which your Ships may ride in safety. Dominion to any

    purpose beyond that © dominion with the cost of maintaining it with the matter

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