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On the occasion of the war which ended
in the independence of the Anglo-American
United States, Tucker, Dean of Gloucester,
wrote against the policy of it. The pamphlet
made a sensation. I read it at the time.
Cui bono? was the title of it. When public
spirit, or whatever else was the motive,
drew from him a breach so conspicuous
of the sacred law of passive obedience, the
Dean, it may well be concluded, had no
great expectation of ever seeing himself a
Bishop: if he had, it was not realized: mammon
in those its richest shapes, went of course
to the supporters of the fruitless slaughter. Trusting,
however, to the composing influences of
time, not many years after, when some of
the evidence I have been laying before
you has made its appearance, this more
honest than successful monitor ventured
to place himself in the circle at as levee.
So far as words went, Majesty was now
become gracious – "Well Mr Dean (said he)
"we begin to be of your opinion: we find we
"are as well without them as with them."
A few hours after the words were uttered, they
were reported to me by one by whom they had
been heard. As far as words went, here was wisdom:
wisdom, or to speak more correctly, probity.
But

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Identifier: | JB/008/136/010 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	008	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	136	Info in main headings field
Image	010	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	12
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	(c1 - c12)
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	j whatman 1820
Marginals		Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1820
Notes public		ID Number	3240
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