18 Sep. 1809

Parl y Reform

B. I. Necessity

Ch.18. Mischief of Idol-worship

Ch. Elogiums mischievous

§ King worship

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For this sort of public spirit, as[?] reasons never could have been so reasons never

have been wanting.

At first it was because he was so young, besides /not to speak/ his having actually

been born in the same island with other people.

Then it was because the royal partner of his bed had borne so many children: {and

because he had never been seen administering to her in public any of that marital

discipline which the law without commending justifies /would have justified/:} that

they occupied commonly the same house, and beyond question sometimes the same bed:

that they were seen every now and then going to Church together and going to the Play

together: that when the one was riding in a Coach, the other would be riding

sometimes in a /the same/ coach, and sometimes though on horseback at some[?] great

distance: and that in a word that if it happened to them as sometimes it will do to

man and wife to have quarrels, they have the prudence as well as the decorum to keep

them to themselves.

Then it was because he was so ill – so very ill: and the more compleatly he was

understood to be disqualified from keeping up so much as the appearance of governing,

the more impatient were these men of public spirit to see the reality of it once more

in his hands.