JB/037/225/002

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1821 May 14
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The But the purpose was – to remove abuse. The dilemma was a perplexing one. Either the all
point as are to be given up, or security to pass over the subject in compleat silence, and thereby to
to the acknowledgement are to be made, that on the throne admitt both antecedent and consequent to be uncontrovertible
of the King of England a place for sincerity was to or admitting the antecedent to deny the consequent,
and thereby declaring that on the throne of a King of
no such quality as sincerity was never to be found England no such quality as sincerity has ever been to be
The better found, – such was the alternative. This was the course pursued. As to it in
that which what hand necessity dictated presented

By the Radicals, through their spokesman leader Sir Francis
Burdet, the Resolutions were introduced. On this occasion, in defence
of that sinister interest which is common to them, the Whigs joined
thought fit to join themselves – not only Vote but Speech – to the Tories after
At from Mr Broughams Speech ... Never were arguments
Brougham took the lead of the Whigs. the Here following an extract from
his Speech. "Never were arguments more inconclusive than those which his Hon. friend"
(Sir Francis Burdett) had used on the present occasion – "He .... had
confined himself to one species of authority, .... which ranked
"in his mind estimation lower than the least, the speeches from
"the throne, from the reign of James 1st down to the .... reign of
"his present Majesty" (George 3.) ... "When they said (those Monarchs)
"said, that the happiness of the people and their own were inseparably
"connected, they did not sincerely believe it, but said
"so merely from courtesy. It was nothing but the language of
"courtesy to the people when they were coming to them for a
"supply of money." ⊞ ⊞ Such is the character
given, on that occasion
of the matchless Constitution
– of the nature
and effect of highest
Institutions: given
in one of the most crowded
Houses ever known:
given by one Member
in express terms, by the rest
all which the others themselves present,
by silence. To this the character thus given of the uniform On what was above in the Honourable House was thus said
there thus said, of the sort of regard for the greatest happiness of the greatest number, as
also of the sort of regard for truth and sincerity, in the matter of so uniformly manifested by
English Kings, no observation has been found made – made by any other
Member, either either for any such purpose as that of the
condemning or the practices Member, either as to the effect either of objecting to the form of government in
which such practice dispositions could be manifested, or that of of of questioning
the accuracy of the account so given of them.

Identifier: | JB/037/225/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-07-07	Marginal Summary Numbering	16, 19, 17-18
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	225	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	11440
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