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1821 Sept. 2
By Death by this Code says Article 224, death to every man who shall conspire to
deprive the King of his legitimate authority
Between the death provided for the preservation of to preserve Tit. I. Cap. 1. "liberty"+ + Tit. I. Cap. 1
and the death to provided Tit I. Cap. 2 for the preservation of to preserve Monarchy‡ ‡ Tit II ICap. 2 I see
every man for the between two fires.
Remembering the use made, on a former occasion of
the Pres I the word corporation, I as mentd in my Tract on the of I see in Article 191 a further somewhat broader more efficient use found
for it. A sympathy not altogether unnatural I hope not unpardonable places before me
on this occasion the my colleagues fellow club men brethren of the Cross of Malta. club
If they are tired of life, the words "ó á que se radiquen
va otras corporaciones o individuos, may if (I am
inclined to think) upon occasion help them to get rid of it. But perhaps
the securities that for public discussion who under the notion that
their who votes may not be the worse grounded for their
having some conception of the of those few
whom they are to rob
the societies citizens who, all over the kingdom of our newspapers (if our Newspapers do
not deceive me) as all over the kingdom are still meeting, for the purpose of considering what under so and so of the constitution may be most conductive to the greatest happiness of the greatest number, if it were only that they may learn how to give their votes, may not be quite
so ready anxi eager to see themselves killed, as the Committee seems to be
to see them killed: and if they are not pleased to be altogether pleased at the thoughts of being killed under
the name of Citizens, I should not expect to find that the
calling the hearing themselves called thoughts of being killed under the name of members of corporation would
render them more so.
For how many things which they themselves have
done, and which I can not but applaud them for having
done, do I not see them Gentlemen appointing this same punishment
of death! the only punishment, the mischief of
which is in case of misapplication, altogether out of the
reach of remedy! Right, that which at the moment suits us:
wrong, that which does not suit use – this, or something like it, is it not the principle?
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