17 June 1811 E

Abdication

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In morals, in politics, neither on this occasion nor on any other has truth - useful and important truth - any need of imposture to /for the/ support /of/ it.

What I will not do /say/, either directly or in the way of insinuation, is that in the House of Commons an habitual majority of the Members have an habitual aversion, a decided and habitual aversion to the continuing in possession of their powers as such any longer.

What I will not say is that in that sence in any such sense as that in which King James the 2 d was in his day by the majority of the House pronounced to have abdicated his power, in the present time the majority of the House have abdicated them.

What I will say is - that in that same sense in which in that his day King James the 2 d was treated by the majority of the Honourable House as if he had abdicated his power, the majority of the same Honourable House ought, by the people of England those people whom without being oposed[?] by them they are so ready to govern as well as to represent, ought to be treated as if they had abdicated theirs.