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Between two stools the bottom goes to the ground

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Pubd March 1t 1802 by SW Fores 50 Piccadilly\n No. 15./ London 12 March 1802./ Tierney, who would have liked a fat job in Ceylon/ left the opposition. This/ (especially Fox in the Whigklub) taunted at this/ feile sacrifice of patriotism. So Tierney/ wanted to give himself the air again as if he were still a Whig and recently attacked Hn Pitt violently in Parliament. Addington, Pitt's squire, could not bear that: he left Tierney, who now neither cold nor warm, neither Whig nor Tory, has become a laughing stock to the people./ Fox and Addington.
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Title: Between two stools the bottom goes to the ground
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Pubd March 1t 1802 by SW Fores 50 Piccadilly\n No.
15.
/ London 12 March 1802.
/ Tierney, who would have liked a fat job in Ceylon/ left the opposition.
This/ (especially Fox in the Whigklub) taunted at this/ feile sacrifice of patriotism.
So Tierney/ wanted to give himself the air again as if he were still a Whig and recently attacked Hn Pitt violently in Parliament.
Addington, Pitt's squire, could not bear that: he left Tierney, who now neither cold nor warm, neither Whig nor Tory, has become a laughing stock to the people.
/ Fox and Addington.

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