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1828 Oct. 4
War with George III
Pauper Management Preface
J.B.s aptitude Most and King
In the opinion of Pitt 2, Ld Melville the 1st and George Rose being
fit for the management of all Prisoners, and all Paupers: Number so many millions
Aº1800, has anything passed since that time, disproving that opinion?
History of the War between Jeremy Bentham
and George the third.
To the contents of the following words following hereinafter following, the history of this
war will be seen to But for this war, form no inapposite Reform. But for this paper war the matter of
would have produced and in part constituted, Law. This history will (namely the history
of this paper war) will it is hoped be deemed found not altogether either uninteresting, nor or
uninstructive. The name of the Of the two belligerents,
the name of the democrat (it may be observed) stands foremost, be- Why so?
Reasons.
Because, to a superficial glance, the it is he that may may present himself
as the aggressor: though on looking further, it will be seen may be seen in him
that or one of the parties number of the parties intended to be injured by the war endeavoured by the Monarch to be
levied against he the people of his Empires – the
English and the Russians – that the first hostility was
manifested.
On the part of George the third, Oczakow was the
pretext for it. In the Year 1789 At the close of the thus present war between Russia
and Turkey, had supposing that little , which if it exists
is now forgotten, remained to Russia, – balance of
power, and with its matchless Constitution which works so well, would have
been destroyed. See . No: not
for the was all endeavour at war the "best of Kings"
was well entitled to call all his own, as this history
will show.
To go still a little deeper, the original dolens may
be found in the endeavour and employed by Catharine of Russia
to obtain on conjunction with such others as could be
found against the maritime tyranny of England as exercised
by one Nation over all the other Nations of the globe
by the dominion claimed and exercised over the common
highway of all those same nations. In mere revenge for this
measure of self-defence, the character of the
"best of Kings" such was the title which
of his consort had procured for him, the most had engaged
the worthy successor of Charles the 13<hi rend="superscript">th of Sweden to make afflict Russia
was with a war, the passion for which had been
manufactured, by himself,
by employing for
own soldiers in the guise
of Russian
soldiers, to make an
inroad into their own
country.
This short elucidation , what follows will speak for itself.
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