1821 April 29

Constitution

Penal

Having them at his disposal, how will he deal with them, does he put them to death in cold blood with a gang of Lawyers to give form and colour to his cruelty? Will he with any such gang for his prompters, tell them that their blood is corrupt and that on that account it was just and necessary that their wives and children should be destitute of subsistence, and in that state kept by law, as far as practicable till they die? No: he will do nothing of all these things, the men he will keep to the best of his power, and custody, their arms, he will as soon as possible take into his custody lest they should turn them against him and his. But sooner or later hostility will give place to peace. On that joyful /healing/ occasion these captives will, the whole remainder of them be sent back to their homes and families, bodies fed, wounds healed, ignominy in no shape either cast upon them or endeavoured to be cast. Whence all these differences? Ans. On neither side has any vice-god been seen or fancied: and on neither side has any such word as order or legitimacy been pronounced