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10 Feb 1810
Parly Reform Sinecures
Those enemies those arch oppressors are the ones
They will be opposed by the one influence by the same
If there be any such opening left by the nature of things
it seems to be that which is afforded by the above and
before us. In this great maritime nation, the power
of which in before which the whatever remains
of maritime power on the whole earth surface of the terraqueous
globe bows down and trembles, the class of men which
together with the to the most and warmest
friends adds the fewest of any concerns and illustrious is that the
Seamen's Sea faring Naval class – that class in to which in this its time of utmost
peril it looks up for its chief means of safety.
Here then lies the cause root of the satisfaction I have
acknowledged to have been produced by the contemplation
acknowledged myself to feel at the thoughts of the injury under
which this most popular and deservedly popular class
of the whole community may be seen have been shown to labour. In To
that body if in to any, belongs may be found the influence capable
of wrestling with a prospect of success against the combined
influences powers above not indicated. But the character
in which they are thus injured – viz. that
of litigants – of eventual litigants or no not so much of actual or even eventual litigants as of those who
without the power having been to preserve themselves from injustice
and oppression have without the power the need of becoming litigants – is common shared by
them to them with the great vast majority of the people. In this
character the nature of the case admitts not of their receiving it is not possible their injuries they should receive experience any
effectual redress without a reform in that system of
procedure as by which the injury is for has been in which the injury beholds its irresistible
and ever active cause. produced.
The remedy law by the contempt of which both
descriptions of British the King's subjects are sufferers – is the same law
the once loved and honoured the now despised Magna Charta:
the remedy from which alone the injuries of either can receive experience any effectual
relief is undecided undelayed, undenied and unsold justice.
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