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1819 Dec. 4 Bentham’s Radical &c
1819 Dec. 4

Bentham’s Radical &c

Prelim

II Necessity

2 Means

5

Thus much as to the end - namely Democratic ascendancy

Now on to the means. The means by which if it depended on me I would wish to see it effected are those very means which after having in Ireland been employed with success as far as they were imposed, from 1778 to 1783 inclusive, were in 1794 evidently by M r Gray[?] referred to and recommended to the people of Great Britain namely by Revolution of the people meeting in bodies and acting on the prudence of the House.

But the House, that is the ruling few do well choose to have their prudence acted upon in any such manner: no portion of the people can for any such purpose meet and act together without being destroyed.

The consequence is, that as matters now stand the people know no other than this one option: either to suffer this country to sink through the condition of Germany into the condition of Spain, or to act upon the prudence of the Honourable House in a mode correspondent to that in which Honourable House &c acted upon their prudence so much to the satisfaction of M r Peele and so many other prudent men, upon the occasion of the Manchester tragedy: to copy /follow/ the example so set - to copy it with no other difference than that which will /in their eyes/ appear to them to be necessitated by the difference of position: to operate in detail instead of operating on them by wholesale.
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    Of the two courses so dramatically opposite, and both so deplorably disastrous I pretend not to fore[…?] or to be so much as able to conjecture /mark by/ which will be pursued. On this subject it would be a task too painful, considering how compleatly it would be unprofitably to set about forcing so much as a wish.

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    Look to the Monarch, his Majesty is most excellent. Be his deportment and belief what it may he is by Act of Parliament not only Most gracious but “most religious”. Look to those who are in authority under him wrapped up in the renowned[?] pomps and vanities you see /of this wicked world/ Right Reverend Fathers in God < > in number, headed by six others each of whom is Most Reverend. On the other side you see Right Honourable and Noble persons /men[?]/ some hundred in number headed by < >, each of whom is a Noble and […?] Prince.

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