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1819 Dec. 2.
Radicalism not dangerous

II. Experience
(3) II. Ireland
After Grattan's Speech

As to parliamentary reform, the effect of it had it
amounted to any thing would have been to the whole body of the possessors a general loss of
seats [to the possessors] This was seen by every body: this
was acknowledged by every body. Accordingly when the
time was thought to have come, offers were a general
system shew of oblation took was exhibited by the whole brotherhood.
That offers of this kind were made in
multitudes we have learn from the candour of Mr Hardy.
that very few, of these demonstrations of public spirit if any, probably none at all, were sincere,
we learn from that same candid pen is an
information for which we are indebted to that same
virtue.

Thus in Ireland then as in Britain now the
question is between the ruling few on the one part and the
subject many on the other part. That by any thing
but from fear of the harm that the subject many [it
was in the nature of the case that] the ruling few should
give up so much as an atom of power that they thought they could
hold was is no more in the nature of the case in the one
instance than it was in the other

Identifier: | JB/137/478/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1	1819-12-02	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	478	Info in main headings field	radicalism not dangerous
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	47195
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