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.