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(12.)

But in deeds – in deeds did the probity
even follow? Oh no: but instead of it, the
course, marked out by the opposite improbity,
not only then was, but ever since has been
pursued: pursued with that eagerness
and that disastrous success, of which the
better fruits continue to be forced down our
throats in such sad abundance. Witness the
last gathered of them – the Ionian isles: and
that English "protection", the infamy of which,
without any of the profit, vies so successfully
with that of the primeval Persian tyranny.

As to those emancipated children, after
parting with whom the Royal Father found
himself so well at ease – could he but have
prevailed on the necessary instruments to
keep working on, best of things, (for by whom
could this appellative ever be refused to the
husband of the fruitfullest of Queens?) best
of Kings and fathers would have drained all
his other children of their last farthing, rather
than have left unsubdued and unpunished,
any of those rebellious ones to whose rebellion
their consequent virtue and felicity had given,
whatsoever could be wanting for its justification.
All this is human, and of course more particularly
regal nature; pride forbids the confession
of miscarriage: love of power forbids
the parting with any the least scrap of the
fascinating appendage, how troublesome power,
so long as any the faintest hope of keeping it
can be kept. –

(End of this letter.)
(12.)

Identifier: | JB/008/136/011 "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	011	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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