1819 Apr. 4

To Erskine 6 IV Whig Demerits

Fallacies

1 Glorious Revolution

They would this insinuate - with the contrary so full as[?] [...?] knowledge - they could this insinuate that we - the people and in particular such of the people of Westminster as with [...?]ly are 'Revolutionists' - that we want a Revolution: while the truth is, as is so well known to them that we want not any thing that ever has been, is with any propriety be designated by any such name as /the name of/ Revolution: and thus the only thing /change/ which when applied to this country has ever born that name is the change which we regard with disgust, because it would not answer /serve/ but counteract our purpose - and which /for the abovementioned reasons/ they have regarded and may at all times be justly considered regarding with complacency, because it would answer their purpose:

They would this cause it to be believed that it is among our wishes that "the people at large" should be "called upon to act for themselves, as of the whole frame of the Government had been dissolved"; whereas so far from its being our wish to see the whole frame of the Government, antient or modern, dissolved, a result by which we ourselves should together with our adversaries be involved in one complet and common ruin, it is not part of our wish that the people at large should ever be called upon to act for themselves. In regard to Government our wish is that the people [...?] should act for themselves: but that they should always to wit in the House of Commons have their Agents to act for them: only /but/ that these Agents should be thus our deputies or delegates call them which you please - Agents appointed by their alledged principals and constituents - not

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