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1820 Feb. 2
Radicalism not dangerous

§.12
III Experience
Ireland
(1) Plowden bland on Charlemont

Mr Plowden was not [in a situation in the ser secret to be in the secret]
In regard to Lord Charlemont It is curious to menti see him mention as matter of suspicion</unclear>
what his biographer has revealed to us as a certainty, has
declared to us as part and parcel of his glories. [namely
that it was for the express purpose of stopping the people in
their progress to gi felicity that he got himself placed
himself at their head.

Ao: 1793 1792 Lord Charlemont had declared himself in favour
of ref parliamentary reform — of radical reform — and in
proof of his sincerity his being so had given the Volunteers to understand that
he was prepared and willing to give up his seats .. But at
the We know from his biographer Mr Hardy, that this was not
the case: that from the first he was averse to any efficient reform, to any
reform which among the effects would have the loss of those
same seats. But to profess himself otherwise than favourable
to reform would not have been consistent with the plan he had
formed settled with himself for the defeat of it. When afterwards his coldness for
reform was noticed, his defence was In this aversion to parliamentary
reform may be seen the true cause of his here apparently
inconsistent measures — the his opposition to Catholic suffrage
at one time, and his approbation of it at another
At the time when he opposed it, the Catholics were predominant
in the Volunteer association, and the Government unfavourable
to any such concessions to the Catholics. His fear then
was lest the Catholics having no hopes from any other
means should be generally favourable to parliamentary reform — having no
hope from any other means. But in process of having Government
probably

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