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1820 Jan 20
Collectenea Radicalism not dangerous.

Note (m) Note
III
II Ireland
1 Corruption general

Hardy 162 164. 169. 184. 210

(m) 2 General profligacy of publicparliamentary and other use.

Hardy 164 162. Ao 1773 "If he" (Lord Macartney) "had added, that
"most august, and winning personage, a French cock, formed
"also a very official adjunct to our Council, and our Senate,
"he would not have been perfectly within the limits of historic
"veracity. Several Secretaries were well convinced of the his utility,
"and yet, were were so ungenerous, when they spoke with
"more than usual approbation in the House, to attribute
"this success not to their rhetoric, not to this incomparable
culinary friend."

(m) 2 Hardy 163. Ao. "Too many . . . <del. laid hold on Lord
Townshend's departure, + + Copy to "all is hollow" in p. 164 not as an apology for, but an entire justification
of their abandonment of the party, which they ha
"they hitherto had adhered to. In the true cant of political hypocrisy,
"and tergiversation, they said, " It is highly indecorous that every Lord
"Lieutenant should be indiscriminately opposed. We could not conscientiously join Lord Townshend, but we may certainly support
Lord Harcourt." This was abstractedly fair, had they upheld
Earl Harcourt's government upon principles of candour
"and disinterestedness. But how did they support it. As all such
"apostates have ever supported any Viceroy. Besieging his ,
"besieging those of the Secretary night and day, soliciting every
"employment, courting every service; at the castle
"sycophants; in the House of Commons adventurous<lb/"braggadocios, hourly insulting the public, whom
"they robbed, and, by their rapacity, hourly weakening that
"royal authority which with an audacious temerity, they
"affected exclusively to maintain. It is deeply to be deplored
"that any Secretary should be obliged to enlist such mercenaries;
"and, had this aspired to any loftiness of State,
"or to measure of great and permanent utility, it might
"have lavished their mendicancy to scars. But it was soon discovered
"that it was of patronage, of multiplied arrangements. Such a Government will be always weak, though, to
"superficial observers, it appears exactly the contrary. But having no
"public measures to rest on, no confidence pf the people to resort
"to, it will be always upheld by the servile and the venal;
"their solicitations are necessarily complied with; their numbers
"pass for strength; and their misdeeds for spirit. But all
"is hollow."

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