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 Highly flattering as the offer was, and eaonable as the act would have been (proceeding from a et of gentlemen whoe motives mut have been pure and diintereted, not only in uch an unequivocal mark of regard for a falling miniter, but from the mode of carrying their object into effect,) the author entertained doubts of Mr. Pitt accepting the proffered bounty, and therefore thought it right to apprize him of the intention. This occaioned a long dicuion on the ubject, which ended in Mr. Pitt expreing a poitive and fixed determination to decline the acceptance of the liberal and generous offer: a determination that nothing could hake: for when it was urged that it never could be known to him who the ubcribers were, and that they were men whoe fortunes put them out of all probability of ever oliciting the mallet favor from him; his reply was, that if he hould, at any future time of his life, return to office, he hould never ee a gentleman from the city without its occurring to him that he might be one of his ubcribers."

This poitive determination was communicated the author to the Baronet before alluded to, which