date

16 Feb 1802 After F.g 22 Connect Obs.
16 Feb 1802 After F.g 22 Connect Obs.

8 Establishment 2

my propr was

accordingly And the inexplicable part

there

was nothing to the purpose part should be left to explain itself at

its own leisure — and that the part that was to the purpose

should be inside the most of. Ut

res

magis pereret quam valeret

was of course on this occasion as on all the object

the Honourable Gentlemans

His determination was

accordingly to fix his eyes

exclusively and irremoveably upon the part that was

nothing to the purpose. M r King had sent him a

letter he could make neither head nor tail of — and as if to punish

him M r Long's idea was that no notice was

to be taken to take no notice of it — and that there the

matter was to rest. A Jeofail had been manufactured for him by the

ingenuity or the good fortune of the ci-devant learned Gentleman: and by

and for this Jeofail, the Act of Parliament was to be quashed,

whose property and hopes had been spent upon the

faith of it and I prosecuted and with cost. punished.

Such was the justice of the case in the conception of M r Long.

2 Negotiation in Nepeans hands. Yet for almost 9 months

nothing done. Next document (J. B. to Nepean) is 10

I think, but am not altogether sure that it was on this occasion that I

asked for a copy of this important letter, and obtained instead of the copy

a refusal, as I already mention. Entangled in this whirlpool

again felt myself fatigued and exhausted almost to

inanition with rowing against the stream. I lay upon my oars.

can for a while lay motionless I

looked round for some charitable hand to save me once more

for sinking. But M r Nepean my only refuge

— was himself every at times

now and then sinking

under ill health: and this, I am inclined to think

was one of them. The next month brought with it other and still

more pressing cares.

The negotiation was now in the hands of M r Nepean.

Yet, partly from his ill health partly from the difficulties of getting the

other parties to hear about it for near five months

afterwards it was still in a state of

, (as the date of the next document (10 Mar 1800) will

shew. I gave M r Long some

respite. Qu. consult the document. My exertions sense

were occupied partly in the endeavour to remove some obstructions

(not worth mentioning for this purpose) that stood in the way of the

compleat execution of the Conveyance partly on the watching

it at the Treasury where it was lying it lay upon M r Pitts table, as already maintained.
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    §11 Disarmed 2

    This plan answered its intended This imposition succeeded passed

    upon M r Nepean purpose. The

    symptom truth of

    consent as to the only point not already acceded to — the

    allowance for me of prices

    2 He had these imposed on Nepean who led J. B. to

    expect Longs effort to the substance of it — but said

    he thought he had not read it — it was too long.

    had been repeatedly dropt by M r Long

    to M r Nepean and repeatedly conveyed by him to

    me. But as to the M r Long's having

    read the Memorial, it was what M r

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    about to the last moment: which doubts, he had to the

    last moment, the moment immediately preceding the conference, expressed to

    me. [+]

    [+] It is a pity the Memorial could

    not have been made shorter: it is too long for M r Long. I question much whether he has

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    his Chamber at the Admiralty to M r

    Long's at the Treasury. Thus unwilling was he to entertain,

    or at least to appear to entertain any suspicions to the

    prejudice of the

    of his official relation.

    M r

    Longs

    reputation in the character of a man of business had on

    this occasion stood him in good stead with M r

    Nepean: no degree of honest indolence no honest neglect

    that he was not understood to be equal to: In this there was no

    mistake: but the mistake, the mistake if any if he if

    lay under any M r Nepean was really under

    any mistake in the occasion, was in supposing deceit and treachery to

    be incompatible with neglect and indolence.
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    being in a state conveniently susceptible of the negative

    pre-determined to be put upon it. — Date... April 1800.

    45 8 Disarmed Memorial

    VIII. Disarmed Memorial (sanctioned by M r Nepean

    as above) Proposals, the same in substance as before: but by necessity

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    near enough as it proved) to that state of inflexible peremptoriness which

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    49 12. Disclosure of the Treasury Plan

    XII. Final disclosure of the Treasury plan, produced by the same cause, on

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    50 Intimation of the result of the negotiations.

    Under the 2 d, 3 d, 4 th & 5 th of the

    above heads your Lordship will see the history of so many distinguishable

    negotiations set on foot by so many distinguishable applications on my

    part, but all carried on — at least in so far as it was

    in my power to carry them on — at the same time. Were this a

    play or a novel, my study would be, of course, to keep expectation in

    suspense, keep back the denouncement of the intrigue, and keep out of

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  • Title: [23 Feb y 1802 Before |1 Connect Obs 7]
    Description: 23 Feb y 1802 Before |1 Connect Obs 7

    §11 Disarmed Memorial 7

    Yes, my Lord — their very best tricks — all their tricks were

    stale to me. They might have strewed the tables with bills — ere I

    should have pricked in one of them. They might have dropped rings

    for me by bushels, ere I should have stooped over to take

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    to do. My arms my defences all the arms in my arsenal

    storehouse I was had all along been prepared to give

    up: and was should have been content to give up, so

    I had got my price for them. But I could see in such

    consequence: the reciprocity was all on one side.

    The storehouse of mercy was in Flint Castle: the my

    source of solvency was the pump at Aldgate.

    The terms obtained granted for me were the terms granted to

    the Carthaginians: and I read in in the fate of Carthage I read

    mine, and I read the fate of Panopticon was written

    seemed in the fate of Carthage.

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    I felt the imbecility of childhood. It was this frame of

    mind that

    produced the following letter to M r

    Nepean

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    which, though in recovering from my swoon I found it

    unnecessary to send

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