1819 Aug. 26

Fallacies. 7 8

Ch | | Logical

| | King can do no wrong

Fiction

Such as has been the mischieviousness /mischievous effects/ of fictions in other and less extensive instances /cases/, such has it been in this all-comprehensive one. What in the shape of a lawyer the instrument of despotism has declared the Monarch to be, in the shape of a Courtier he has professed to believe him to be in right earnest - impeccable a model of perfect virtue. Such, with the addition of beauty was Elizabeth on all occasions declared to be by all her Courtiers - Such every man who ever bears a crown[?] is by Blackstone declared to be: and this so seriously that on the position that he is so arguments are grounded and practical inferences deduced from it. And that, to the character of demi God not to say God upon earth worthy as such to be glorified, and by "prostration of understanding and will" worshipped nothing may be wanting, every King is by the Church of England Liturgy and the Act of Parliament in which it is contained every King, though he were a professed Atheist, declared and constituted most religious.

Such being the fiction, how in the case in question stands the plain truth? That the King in[?] quick[?] can never do wrong? No assuredly. That he can never do otherwise than wrong? - Nor that neither. With truth, not Of the most flagitious character that ever existed could any such thing be said. But that tking his whole like though more wrong if by wrong be meant mischief, is done by a man in this situation than by a man in any other, is matter of the strictest truth. In the whole 17 million or whatever the number may be no man can there be whose interest is in a state of such miserable /und[...?]ble opposition to the universal interest. Of the produce of the labours of the 17 million by no man is any thing like so large a portion taken from them by force, and expanded in the gratification of his own appetites, while by that which is thus consumed[?] thousands who ever year perish for

want

want of the necessaries of life might have been saved from such their fate.