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1820 Jany
Radicalism not dangerous

§.6 Notes
III Experience
II Ireland.
(5) Charlemont treachery

Time and space will not admitt of transcribing all that issued
to the above effect, and the difficulty is not small of making any
they like a correct and virtually compleat solution. In p.256
"the people (it is said) from the Cabinet they (the people) it is said)
turned their eyes to Parliament, whose servility they reprobated
and totally forgetting their own inconsiderable ardour with
prosecution of the men (say rather some of them repenting of it) attributed
their sufferings to the inadequate representation of the people, from
whom alone, as was asserted, all past calamity flowed, as if
the American war was exhibited/ the only reason which the people had
for wishing that the persons men used to be freely chosen by them to serve as the
instrument of their power were should be really so. . The national
sentiment was now (Ao 1783 or earlier p. 257) changed . . . In some
places (in England Britain) delegates the most respectable for rank and
talents were apprehended to consider a subject of such magnitude
and Mr William Pitt . . . second, as a statesman he
affirms to himself the almost exclusive guardianship of their
favoured measure . . .

If England had reason to complain of the inadequacy or
nega inequality of of its representation .. in the House of Commons the people of Ireland
had, at least, as much reason to find fault with theirs; and
had the subject been confined to County and City Meetings
(in which appeared more and more in office, power rank and opulence
would have carried every thing by intimidation) or occasional
assemblies of delegates unexceptionally convened" that is
convened in such sort as to form assemblies so authoritative
no question could have arisen" (says Mr Hardy) as to the
propriety, and perhaps the utility, of such discussions.
Petitions, the result of those meetings — petitions "(which never could have
been

Identifier: | JB/137/310/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1	1820-01-30	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	310	Info in main headings field	radicalism not dangerous
Image	001	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1816]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1816
Notes public		ID Number	47027
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