1820 Feb. 19

Radicalism not dangerous

III. Experience

II. Ireland

Radicalism - its origin

Factitious dignity

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Dignity of the Crown. Dignity of the Peerage of the Judges.

Thus it has been seen all of it so much […?] evil is this factitious dignity when it stands alone. But there are cases there are and those but too numerous and too important where it is deemed incapable of standing alone: incapable of maintaining itself without support: without the support of money: money the produce of taxes - money wrung for this purely pernicious purpose from the necessities of the people.

The case first in eminence - the case preeminent in mischief is that of the Crown. Without money coming from the people, money in that vast quantity which every body sees and feels, the dignity of the crown the dignity of the Monarch the dignity of that one individual could not be supported. And suppose it {were} not supported - suppose it fallen to the ground - in what assignable particular would the condition of the people be the worse? This is what remains to be proved: this is what never has been proved - this is what never has been attempted to be proved - this is what never will be never can be proved.