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30 Apr. 1817 Addendum

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§.10. Bribery and Terrorism

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True it is that in those days to no inconsiderable extent terrorism had place terrorism operating to the profit of the sinister interest of the Country Gentlemen, true it is that under and notwithstanding that terrorism, that sort and degree of security which was afforded by the Revolution was afforded: afforded to the people, and by a Parliament. True: and /but/ why? Even because though even then not so perfect an instrument as it ought to have been and might have been, still such was the madness of the Monarch, that in the hands of the people it became an instrument of security of security as against the Monarch.

At the present time, through /from/ /by/ the concurring operations of several causes, in the number of which the terrorism by means of which the lower and middling classes of the people are held in bondage by the higher, and together with so many other liberties the liberty of suffrage taken from them, the Parliament it has been rendered an instrument in the hands of the Monarch – capable of being employed, and but too really extensively[?] and constantly actually employed, against the people.