8. ib. Page 40. "The latter part of the expence would indeed be only

temporary; but supposing it to be perpetual What government can,

in the present day, be so unenlightened, as not to know, that the

preservation of its citizens, and the amendment of those who do

wrong, is one of the most positive obligations? that it is itself guilty

of every crime importable to its negligence or improvidence?

subscribe to it? Does your Lordship know of any other person

who would subscribe to it

tron or is it romance? The

What says Your Lordship to this question? That any such

light as the noble writer speaks of ever found its way into

Treasury? the scab of government here? One pair of

stairs - two pair of stairs- against or any other floor

of the Treasury Chambers

In the mind of the noble writer the idea of obligation

it is evident from this passage had some how or other become

connected with the idea of the scabs of state. Your Lordship

smiles: but Your Lordship's candour would obscure

in the behalf when he was writing — in America;

writing in America, and having in his company - among

Quakers

What is rather more to the purpose there was once a time

when an idea not very dissimilar appears to have been floating must have been floating

in the mind of the Honourable Gentleman whose official

seat is not many yards distant from Your Lordships'. "With

respect to Your Consul please (says Mr Vansittart in

the last letter I have been honoured with by that gentleman

dated 10 th September 1802)" I have not yet had an opportunity

of consulting with Lord Pelham, on whose decision the

business