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Rh important to the petitioner and his descendants, and so honourable to the persevering consistency and humane condescension of this monarch is as follows.—As I before told you, I will not leave a stone unturned, and therefore have now in the press a case to give to every member of Parliament; and which you may expect to see in a few days. I do not think it possible to get any more of our reward;—but my business, after this, will be, to sit down quietly, without having to say to myself,—had I taken such or such a step, I might have succeeded. I am certain if I do not succeed now, it will be morally impossible afterwards: as I have an opportunity of laying before his Majesty, every Tuesday, every thing I have done: and I do not write one word, or take one step, without acquainting him with it

The junior Harrison being unfortunately (like his father) not a man of reading unconnected with his avocations, nor viewing circumstances in a light foreign to the anxious purpose of his pursuit, the observations on the prominent characters of either House of Parliament, in that day, which may he conceived to have incidentally arisen out of the conferences and counsel he was thus honoured with, and which, as coming from such a quarter, would be enquired for by the future historian, are wholly lost.

The debates, on the first and the third reading of the petition, have been sought for without