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1827 March 29
J.B. to Peel
☞ – Shall Peel
be addressed in the common
way or by
Queries?
By private Letter
or by do in th a
Newspaper
The eyes of the public
are upon you, Sir.
And not only of the
public in this country
but of the public
in the civilized world
It is by me that
these last have been
drawn upon you, this their object and
and through me that
they will be kept fixt
on it
What you
sat upon that part of
your reputation, or
it is not for me to
as to that I must take
any chances.
To a man in your
situation, it may be
matter to speak thus
of a man in may
be matter for aught I
can say be matter of policy
and justifiable compleatly justified
prudence.
But as to his aptitude
for any such task?
To a man in your
situation and of your
age, some advice that
is not interested and
interested in the compleat
frustration of your declared
wishes and endeavours
can not be altogether without
its use.
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I speak it most sincerely
and solemnly, it
would be a real pleasure
to f me to have it in
my power to distinguish
your proceedings from that
of a man whose sole object
was to persevere
in the vulgar system of
corruption and make his
profit out of it
by the sacrifice of the
interest of the subject
many to that of the ruling
and influential few
I hope you have been
misrepresented: but it
is otherwise than from what
I see now I speak.
Is it possible that &c?
You are a young man
but are you yet to hear
that man is governed
by self regard, and
that his existence depends
upon his being so.
Your proceedings have
they for their ground and
efficient cause the persuasion
that the persons
in question will act
in the direction professed
to be intended act not
merely without
motives, but in direct
opposition to motives
the more extensively
and almost
?
And in the statement of
this fact
is
is to be as you
have already intended,
to the account of .
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I am labouring with
all my might to
render it possible for
me to avoid the distressing
persuasion that
what you have your design has anything
better in it than
the name of a job
with the prevention
of improvement under
the notion or pretence
of effecting it.
Is not the being having
given so many men amongst
those £6,000 a year
for absolutely nothing
without the smallest
security for their
having possessing aptitude
in any shape
but that of aptitude
for eating 100 dinner
in a certain review:
but that another £6,000
a year to an indefinite
amount more
is to be added to it.
Lord Eldon Chancy
Commission bred those
results of no greater
good in it that it
did not cost anything
unless it was
the fees to himself and
Co for passing it.
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If you want Flattery
Mr Butler will give
you enough of it.
He will put you along give you a place by the side of
with Lord Eldon in the
next edition of his reminiscences.
Need I observe to
you Sir, do you
stand in need of being
informed, that these
same men
whoever they are, are
in and in a degree perpetuated
to the
interest in
counteracting to the
utmost of their power
the object you profess
to have at heart,
and in subjecting
substituting perjorative
to the professed amelioration: pejorative,
with
at the loss of it?
Thence being reaped
at the expence of the public
individuals the highest rate of
profit capable of being
thus reaped is not yet
enough without them
having their purses filled
still further by salary
at the expence of the
public without any the
smallest security for
on the part of any one of
them for attendance for
so much as a single minute,
on the
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