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1819 Apr. 4
To Erskine

IV Whig Demerits
Fallacies
1 Glorious Revolution

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They would thus insinuate [— with the contrary so full up
their knowledge —] they would thus insinuate that we — the
people and in particular such of the people of Westminster
as will truly are "Revolutionists" — that we want a
Revolution: while the truth is, as is so well known to them
that we want not any thing that ever has been, is with any
propriety be designated by any such name as the name of Revolution:
and thus the only thing change which when applied to this
country has ever borne that seems is the change
which we regard with disgust, because it would
not answer serve but c and purpose — and which
they regard have regarded and may at all times is justly considered
[+] for the abovementioned
reasons
as regarding with complacency, because it would
answer their purpose.

They would thus cause it to be believed that it
is among our wishes that "the people at large" should
be "called upon to act for themselves, as if the whole frame
"of the Government had been dissolved": whereas so far from
its being our wish to see the whole frame of the
Government, antient or modern, dissolved, a result by
which we ourselves should together with our adversaries
be involved in one compleat and common ruin, it
is no part of our wish that the people at large should
ever be called upon to act for themselves In regard to Government
what our wish is that the people never should act
for themselves, but that they should always have their Agents to wit in the House of Commons
to act for them: only but that these Agents should be their one
deputies or delegates call them which you please — Agents appointed
by their alledged principals and constituents — not
by

Identifier: | JB/104/449/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 104.
Date_1	1819-04-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	449	Info in main headings field	to erskine
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::i&m [with prince of wales feathers above] 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	34420
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