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1830 Nov. 22
J.B. to France against Death
8. Now for an example. But t'other day was came
forth from the honest lips of Joseph Hume came
heard in so-styled Honble House from the proposition
that in that same House the Servants of the King
should be bound to pay attendance, and admitted to
speak, but that they should not have votes: and
that by the exclusion thus put upon their Votes, a
correspondent quantity of the pestilential matter of corruption
should be shut out. To a proposal thus unobjectionable What think you was the reception given? acceptance, no man eyes could look for at
such hands: upon all rational answer was not to be found
the nature of the case put a peremptory veto .. Yes
an answer was not only called for, but given. O In what
did it consist? in loud horse-laughter – Sentences
war continued on the proposal more than one: at
each sentence out came a horse-laugh. To Such answers
being the answer, what would have been what may one made to such proposition what would be the appropriate reply
day, be the reply? Alas On the point of a some future Cromwell
a back up may be the actual reply? To the
sitting part of each performer in the Chorus a great
sound , followed by a sop out at at the door,
not to speak of the window.
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