JB/137/372/001

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1820 Feb. 5
Radicalism not dangerous

Note Notes
III Experience
II Ireland
(2) Charlemont treachery
Conclusion

(e) [disinterestedness, and honest zeal in its service] Disinterestedness
by sacrificing the interest of the people to the interest he had in the
secure possession of his two seats, and in the eventual profits of
in the event of his being on good terms with the Ministry. He had His
just then got disinterestedness had just then, placed upon his shoulders the ribbon of St Patrick, and seated himself and
his Mr Grattan at the Counsel Board.

(f) [honest zeal in its service] namely, by doing having done what nobody
else could have done — on pretence of zeal for its service, extingu purposely destroyed
its pur effected the total destruction of its influence: of that influence
by which so much good without a particle of evil had by the
confession of all parties been produced.

(g) [deserted him] This him also as Mr Hardy himself has been informs
us 1 put himself [not] at the head of them but for the for the very purpose
of betraying them and betrayed them accordingly.

(h)[over ruled all tumults] What tumult? Tumult there could
not have been any: the Volunteers had the power of the country
compleatly in their hands: Government had no materials wherewith
to make a tumult. Without any tumult or attempt to
make one they had yielded up under the conduct of Lord Charlemont all those points in which
he saw any advantage for the aristocracy to which he belayed,
and from which that aristocracy obtained a permanent advantage
while the people derived no other than a precarious
and in the event a temporary one. transferred taken on as they were out
of the hands of a distant aristocracy into the no less grinding oppressive
hands of an omnipresent one. Tumult? the tumults he
over-ruled were no other than the above imaginary ones: and but per contra, the
for the tumults which by so doing he gave birth to see the history written are they not in the
history histories of the times? are they not down to 1800 written in Mr Plowden's history.

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Date_1	1820-02-05	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	372	Info in main headings field	radicalism not dangerous
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