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and the existing authorities. The powers that be have not only by
excessive taxation raised the price of the necessaries of life to an
extraordinary pitch but by pressing so very hard on the manufacturing
and commercial interest have caused a diminution
of wages to the labourer in a ratio equal to the increase of the
price of bread and other necessaries And in another part
thereof according to the tenor and effect following that is to say
In advising you to call another public meeting I would
earnestly recommend you to do it at the earliest time possible
after the Assizes for your County are holden and at the
same time seek some more advantageous spot for self defence
in case of attack than St Peters field it was of all places the most
unfortunate for an unarmed People to be assailed by a brutal
armed force we must not shrink from duty from the terror of
a similar attack let every man be prepared to sell his Life
as dearly as possible and I'll pledge mine that we can beat
off the combined Yeomanry Cavalry of the whole Country.
If it is the determination of the Government to interrupt a
public discussion of the necessity of Parliamentary Reform
we knowing that such public discussion is consistent and
sanctioned by the Standing Laws of the Country must determine
on our part to meet and discuss the question even should
it be at the hazard of our lives. Nothing to be can be more
noble than to meet death on such ground to sell our Lives
in defence of our Rights against the violation of Law and against
the assault of a Military despotism but this I can say
on my part that in this Country under the present state of
things I will never attend a public meeting on any political
question of Reform without arms once having narrowly escaped
with life is to me a sufficient justification I trust
that I have here pointed out to you the necessity of attending
that meeting with arms in your hands. In contempt of our
said Lord the King and his Laws To the evil example of all
others and against the peace of our said Lord the King his Crown
and Dignity.
2d. Count. And the said Attorney General of our said Lord the King
for our said Lord the King gives the Court here further to understand
and be informed that the said Philip Francis being
such malicious, seditious and ill disposed person and unlawfully
and maliciously devising and intending to raise and
excite discontent and disaffection in the minds of the liege
Subjects of our said Lord the present King and to move and
excite the liege subjects of our said Lord the King unlawfully
and with force and violence to change and alter the Constitution
of this Realm heretofore to wit on the Thirteenth
day of September in the Fifty ninth year of the Reign aforesaid
at the Parish aforesaid in the said County of
Surrey unlawfully and maliciously did publish and cause
to be published a certain other scandalous malicious
and seditious libel containing therein amongst other
things divers scandalous malicious and seditious
matters
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radicalism not dangerous |
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john flowerdew colls |
[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]] |
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arthur wellesley, duke of wellington |
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1818 |
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