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18 Feby 1802 O 9
§8. Observations on the Duke's dispensing power

Illegality
10
2 Their best chance
for escape is the
ridicule attached
to the idea of a
great cause committed
by one
personally so little

One source of protection acquittal is certainly open to
more effectual than any other — viz: the
power of ridicule — It is

Solventur risu tabula — tu missus abibis —
Mr John King exercising a dispensing power
the Duke of Portland that now exercising a dispensing power
a dispensing power exercised by the Duke of Portland!
When we hear of a dispensing power — a power
that cost a King his crown and produced a
Revolution in the Kingdom one imagination steps
in whether we will or as no and in the
smuggling away the image of the puny personage individual whose case it
is — conjures up some grim tapestry
tyrant in the room of it him. A dispensing
power — Yes if it were a Lord Camden — with
his forty days tyranny — extendible on the same
principle to any other number of days — or
from that occasion to any other occasions — Yes
if it were a Lord Camden with the power of
his eloquence for the support of it — there might
be something to be feared from it — — But
a Duke of Portland! a Mr John King under
the name of the Duke of Portland — Billy Mr
Baldwin! a Pageant moved where he can is as not
help at liberty by a Mr John King — and
when he is at liberty by a Mr William Baldwin.
commonly called Billy Baldwin make the most
of it — you will never be able to make more of it than a joke.

[+] I do not mean
the present good
first gentleman
who means no
more harm than
the Duke of Portland
but his learned
father.

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Date_1	1802-02-18	Marginal Summary Numbering	10
Box	121	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	421	Info in main headings field	Observations on the Duke's dispensing power
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	D9
Penner		Watermarks	1800
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	001
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