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1830 Aug 23
J.B. v. George 3
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Bute dislocated many functionaries
of the Monarch's circle — harshly but not illegally
in whose company he
passed his time.
who were in attendance about his person.
Bute on coming into office had dislocated in
no small number those titled servant of the Monarch of whom
was composed the circle in which he moved. Harsh was
this proceeding but it had nothing of illegality in it — nothing that
any person whose intimation was not compressed, within that comparatively
narrow circle had any ground of complaint against.
If you whoever you are take it into your head to turn away your
servants or any of them what business is it of mine> By doing so
what ground of complain have you given to me?
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Revenge of the dislocatees &
means of wreeking it not
surprising: injustice not
legally but morally done,
for disappointment & thence
pain was were wrongfully produced.
Still however of harshness there was no want in this: and that
those who were sufferers by it should be loud in their invectives against
the author of their suffering hungry for revenge and not over
about the means of wreeking it is no more than was to be expected.
Here had been expectation: and broken miscontinued expectation of continuance in office
but short had been this expectation by disappointment. Whenever disappointment
has place pain has place and accompanies it. Here
therefore may be seen the essential character of injustice — of injustice
not indeed in a legal sense; for right of continuing in these several situations
there was none: still however injustice in a moral sense; for pain
was produced which morally speaking ought not to have been produced.
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