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1826 July 29
London Petition
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Looking over Surveying the whole expanse of the Judicial establishment
we see the same in the same shape corruption triumphant infecting every branch of it.
We behold in it the obvious and compleatly adequate cause of
the suffering and grievance abovementioned and disastrous effects We
see What retribution in such a shape contributes
a moral impossibility of change in any shape but amputation in
the burthen of those afflictions. We behold in the Lord Chancellor
a man who has succeeded in his endeavours to secure himself in p
the possession of a mass of with the number
of of the county with the number of .
We behold in him a man on the judgment and used
in the Cabinet doing his utmost to give encrease to his emolument as
from all other sources or from that. When he consent to give
up for only or for a so exceeding
mental value his emolument from these source it will may
then be possible for me in our to believe that perhaps it is no longer in his
endeavour to give to their distress: till then it will not
be possible. For with desire and endeavours suppose a man
occupying such his situation what other course could he take for
the accomplishment of them. Whether no public man ever did, or
none can sacrifice his duty to his present interest in its
more sordid shape or the of Eldon has the sinister sacrifice<lb?>has all along been and continues to be made, by the Earl of
Eldon.
While men of his degree are declaredly under the
of personal interest shall a man be pronounced free from it only because
self forged with wealth and armed with purse capable of paying that and appropriate shall
sum giving the interest effect possible to the suggestion of that same
:
We beg here in in fear of the contrary to Your
Honourable House that we are not to be <gap[/> imposed upon by any such
pretence: that our eyes are wide open to them and to <gap/.
what it is the object of them to
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