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1820 Apr. 23
Radicalism not dangerous Despotism dangerous
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I feel myself living in a country by the government of which
it is treated in the failing of a conquered country is rather
Between Course imposed upon it such as was not imposed upon
the French when under the division of the blind
It would not in my eyes excite the smallest degree of
suspense, if supposing my life spared a few years longer
it I were by accident to learn that in the Penitentiary
at Milbank his Majesty that now is had amused
himself with seeing a Radical put in the the
administered in a Radical, with Lord Sidmouth
and another Lord directing the application of the torture
To being with his Majesty If I am asked why, I answer without difficulty.
His Majesty is King of the United Kingdom of which England
and Scotland were out of the three points. In the Year
1684 James the second became King of England and Scotland.
A little before that time his said Majesty a
yet but pre possession of the Kingdom of England
but under the talk of governing the Kingdom
of Scotland land in this northern Kingdom been known
to gratif administer to himself this same gratification
If I am asked whether I can take upon me to say
that his Majesty the King Monarch of a banished Monarchy,
and whose virtues share with such transcendent
can seriously be regarded as likely to tread on this
part of the footstep of that Popish King where who by
his disposition to tyranny, tyrannical disposition was actually drawn
from the , I answer that my means of as
informing myself of the disposition of the individual are inadequate evil
to the purpose, and that in an event to the prejudice of on an
side it happened to my information or my judgment to
be in the unfavourable side, and I were to give either make public the one or
the other in its real and undisguised state, then are Lord
Liverpool, Lord Sidmouth Lord Castlereagh, Mr Connor
with their et ceteras ready to order a prosecution the
result
result of which would
be the destruction of my
life, and then are
Sir Copley
and Sir Giffard
in the character of Attorney and Sollicitor General
not less ready to carry
out execution any such
order than to receive it.
and there is moreover
Mr
the Master of the Crown
Office, who in regard to on whose instance
the <gap/. of a Special
Jury disposed to
and give all due effect
to their loyal affection
the person and Government
of his Majesty that
is of more Majesty, were
to do their part
the doing further upon all
offenders against his Crown and dignity, appropriate/adequate is altogether and appropriate correspondent disposition as little to be doubted of:
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radicalism not dangerous |
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radicalism not dangerous - despotism dangerous |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]] |
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arthur wellesley, duke of wellington |
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