Letter received by Banks from the Duke of Portland, 9 February1799 (Series 72.136) - No. 0002

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Office, the precedents in the History of the Union between England and Scotland, which might illustrate the Subject, for the purpose of bringing, in aid of the intended Arrangement with Ireland, the wisdom and experience of former times, by which investigation it will appear, that many of the Arguments which were brought against the Union with Scotland, and which time has completely refuted, are the same with those, on which the opponents of an Union with Ireland at present rely. 

Whitehall

Febry 9. 1799