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Click Here To Edit 1820 FebTo Griffenhoof Bastill
Alas Sir! what is the same that yet have yet unfolded
to us! A prison the entrance of which is kept secret from the eyes even if un for use by the constituted authorities &
even of 10 Grand Juries? A prison in which all cruelty is secured against detection, what is
it but a Bastille?
A Bastille? In
An unsuspectable prison. in the word a Bastille. In
that one word is not the case and substance of the most
flagelious and excoriating tyranny included? For whom is what are
the torments that by means of this engine may not and with
sure impunity be inflicted? and for what better purpose can
the possession command of it to be any person an object of desire? A Bastille Alas, Sir! this is no exaggeration. Applied as here, the word this is not one of these
flower weapons of rhetoric, the use of which our public men indulge in
is so familiar to our public men. No Sir: it to indulge It possesses the exact character of the horrible
instrument from whence its name has been derived. Apply
for access to the Secretary of State and if such be less pleasure it be less destitute
access you will have. Well and in the case of the French Bastille
was there not always some special person from whom by whose authority
access to it might be had? always excepted that provided support is the
one care as in the other that such were his pleasure
and not otherwise. If cruelty is above in any other form has been committed Apply for credence if abuse of those who of these
and not otherwise have been abuse have been the authors of it if it be the authors, of itapply
to them and if it be their pleasures to be exposed they will furnish
you with the means.
it
A Bastille. An English Bastille! A Bastille established
in England established in the metropolis of England by an English Act of Parliament! and this too
has been added to the catalogue of English Institutions!
of these Institutions, which by fine and imprisonment, and
banishment and be all by secret and table
imprisonment we are to be forced to love!
Ah Howard! dear departed friend! what wouldst
thou have said to this? this very heart would have been broken by it?
While a son, father or brother is a son of yours is kept in a
state of sufferance of which it has been indeed impossible for you
to be informed, give information of it to the authors, and it
will rest with them to determine whether you yourself shall be informed
of it. Such is the security which the authors of his last line provided
against the abuse of it.
What torments and think
those of hunger? And
by so & p
as a little forgetfulness accidental neglect
as in the distribution of food
or drink how careless
might it be inflicted!
And who could be so
uncandid as
to make out of any
such little forgetfulness
one not upon a cause
of accusation against
a Secretary of State
With such an instrument
as common law
unnecessary are all those
tortures while the
history of Torture I
speak of Flardin
history has recorded
which Mr would have
told of and which Lord Castlereagh
has heard of;
and for of which work
every one to accuse
the author, not the
author but the accuser
would be punished
What could have
thy falonge couldst these
had been imagined
that this could have
been the craft and fruit
of all thy labours.
If thy !
of so many years of self-affliction
troubles to assuage the affliction
of Alexy Deasffound
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Date_1	1820-02	Marginal Summary Numbering
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