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Means the Whig Junto, who are spoken of as masters of the situation, and waiting only for the voting of supplies to undertake the administration. It is difficult to understand the abject fear into which Swift and Lewis allowed themselves to fall, and which seems to justify Harley's words that that all this would turn to advantage.

Note by Henry Craik to Letter 36 from Journal To Stella

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