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1818. July 31-

Parl Ref Bill

Reasons

II. Electors who

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But suppose her really in danger - was it for you to turn your back upon her? You one of the most exalted and favored of the Sons? Ah rechreant[?] knight! Was not this - ask Lord Castlereagh else turning your back upon yourself? Whom can the self-created Goddess, whom to speak lightly of is blasphemy whom can she depend upon for a champion if not upon Lord Grenville: What could you have been at a loss for weapons? does not vice become virtue, absurdity reason, when employed in her defence?-

Any inexpedient and misplaced scruples, is it possible they should ever disturb the mind of that Statesman whose first Act of power was to constitute himself sole check upon himself, to keep /heap/ Sinecure upon overpaid place and who lest he should cease to see himself in the Treasury saw a Hanover in Hampshire? Yes, Hanover in Hampshire: even as his less enabled and by nobility degraded kinsman saw America in Germany, when it was in Germany that he was bid to conquer it.

But to return. Such are the objects such the fruits of Establishments. Establishment upon Establishment you may have: Establishment upon Establishment, and yet no reading, though they should all promise it. Make reading as here proposed the necessary Road to suffrage, you get reading, and you get it without Establishment.

Look even to the so long self stiled and at last /length/ Charter Stiled National Institution /Society/: if it has produced so much /some/ reading for some reading, how ill applied soever, it has produced, it is because it has as yet had so little in it of Establishment.