1819 Apr. 4

To Erskine 9 IV Whig Demerits

Fallacies

1 Glorious Revolution

This is among those things which they would endeavour to cause to be believed, knowing as they do, knowing what /as/ I have shewn, and has no one has attempted or will attempt to deny that under the constitution as it is, they in the hands of the supreme power no such tie as obligation but[?] places that all pretence of obligation is hypocrisy and [...?], and that under the [...?] of a mixt government it is an unresponsible despotism that reigns: that reigns and must continue to reign untill parliamentary reform you radical reform shall been established

They will proceed to observe that The Revolution was /p. 4/ happily not effected by an indignant and enraged multitude. They will thus endeavour to cause it to be believed that it is our desire not only that a Revolution should be effected but that it is by the hands of an endignant and enraged multitude that we wish to see it effected.

They will proceed to observe that it was slowly proposed "that same Revolution of 1688 by the most virtuous and best enlightened classes of the people", they would thus endeavour to cause it to be believed in the first place that at that time in those same classes there existed a general and adequate disposition to sacrifice their own particular interests to the interests of the greatest number of its whole people, and this for the sake /purpose/ of causing it to be believed that at this day in those same classes the same self-sacrificing principle has place: 1 state of things which in both instances and in every instance would be incompatible with the very existence of the species.