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17 Apr. 1803 Two Letters
Preface
Ld Pelham's
nothingness
Nothing more convenient
than to fill the situations
nothing more inconvenient
than to attempt [to do] the duties
extremely found extreme difficulties in
saying any thing upon the
subject. Whither those difficulties
will be
by the present publication
the reader will judge
that it proper to
learn de noro it could
have had its his support: but
:
the the the more problematical
the propriety of keeping
☞ Insert in the Preface extract from Collins's last letter
Comparing the laws made public with the silence the and necessary silence
which has may a tolerably without much difficulty the regard that
paid in for the interests of morality good Gap/> security and justice
The noble Lord him — whose proficiency in the arts of is beyond dispute.
Letters to Lord Pelham?
A question here presents itself
says somebody who Letters about Convicts and about Penal Laws
about Police! Who is this that writes letters to Lord Pelham
and upon such subjects? Write upon such subjects and to
Lord Pelham? To Lord Pelham and upon such subjects?
What did he ever know about them? What did he ever care
about them? Who then is Lord Pelham? What does Lord Pelham?
Where is Lord Pelham?
Unable to find Without a reason without the shadow or so much as the pretence of
an excuse Gentleman that the imposed opposed individual and the
stil worse regard public is without remedy knowing that they themselves
can not be Gentleman wrap themselves up not in their virtue
but in their power — and are silent
I answer — the Lords like other men must be taken as they are We must take men as we find
them and where we find them. The ways of providence are inscrutable
[+] The choice of his Majesty's Secretary of State is vested
in his Majesty. Lord Pelham is one of his Majesty's Secretaries
of State.
Obsequious towards those whom who can not be afforded <add> without danger with </add> he is obliged to with the
himself upon him those who has to help him whose fate he
beholds lying at his feet.
The privilege of silence is not refused to the lowest class of malefactors:
who shall can refuse it to the highest. who shall match it from the strongest and the strongest.
have no protector advocate <add>guardian</add>: public security public morals have no guardian
engagements have no force: Parliament has no authority. Oppression
and perfidy are triumphant: oppressed finds no support
in the administration of Mr Addington
Compliant no redress nor so much as a hearing: letters
are doors shut: persons <add>speechless and inaccessible . The trust
of the public has been broken towards an unoffending individual.
The this: he has need of it: he has of it he is content it should be so: that it should
be so — that a wasteful and corruptive system should be perpetuated
as it suits the or ingenious interests, or copious
and passions of
[+]As clay in the hands of the
Kings are in
the hands of the King of Kings
so are subjects in the hands
Subjects are in
the hands of Kings, Kings
take subjects and take men
as they find them. The business subject
matter was of the number
of those which are understood
to belong to come under the
cognizance of a Secretary
of State.
the authority of Parliament
has been openly trampled upon
and
and the public faith shou'd
Parliam
<add>to the of a devoted
Parliament should
a state of
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