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1819 Dec 6

Radicalism not

Introd
4. Unauthoritative accusations
1. Edinburgh Review
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Against radicalism
as above, unless the
word moderate
no reason found for a
long term but billowing
basking or inlately lling
upon papers:
1. On Tory side. subversion
of all order &c
2. On Whig side "absurd,
"visionary and
"senseless"..."wild and
"impracticable &c
in Morn. Chron.22
Nov. 1819. "senseless
"scheme of reform which
"if realized, would"

"plunge us into anarchy
and ruin."

Against radical reform as above explained, unless
the abovementioned word moderate be regarded as a reason
I had for a long time been unable to discover any nearer appropriate
to reason than a sort of discourse language which in writing
presents is to written reasoning what bellowing is
bashing or an inarticulate yell is to reason presented in the form
of word of mouth discourse spoken language

On the Tory side of Honourable and Right Honourable
House and other honourable - subversion of all order &
subversion of the Constitution

On the Whig side, absurd, viscious and senseless
wild and impracticable, and so forth: and in the Whig principal
Newspaper such is every now and then the agreement with
the Tories as to produce passages such as these . . "senseless
schemes of reform which if realized would plunge us into anarchy and ruin"+ + Morn. Chronicle
22 Nov. 1819

One exception indeed I should have made, and that

10
Sole exception, Edinb.
Review. But there
the usefulness of radicalism
is inwardly recognized: Review
an advocate who argues
against his own opinion.
reasons for this are
proposed: but the
attention being more
demand of his other subjects:
necessitates postponement
if not
mean time the
most important parts not
virtually answered a
preliminary explanations
the exception afforded though in appearance <add>thanrather than in reality</add> by the Edinburgh Review
from the moment took it in him which has not been
very likely it has appeared to me that amongst the
by whom the ne, as well as usefullness of parliamentradical
reform has been inwardly the very
of the article in question many will be numbered
not only in but in petitions advocates have their reasons
for arguing against their own opinion an
instance in my own of the has been the case
The reasons consideration in which this opinion of mine is grounded was produced I
am not altogether unprepared to . But the length to which
an examination of that sort would not inconsiderably have to
itself, coupled with the consideration of the more pressing demand
presented for by other subjects produced athe conviction Explanation to the
abovementioned Draught
of a Bill, will find
that on the most important
topics the reasoning on
that article of the Reason
has not been left
altogether unoberated.
of the necessity of of not omitting altogether
the of any such Cash. In the mean time any
person who will take the trouble of comparing with the of
then brought forward, that which may be found in the Preliminary Explanation

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Date_1	1819-12-06	Marginal Summary Numbering	9-10
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	080	Info in main headings field	radicalism not
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