[clxiv. 206]

1820 June 27

Emancipation Spanish

?.8. Corruptive influence

Edulcoratives

1. Publicity. 2 Numerousness

Why in France and in England Monarchs tolerate Assemblies instead of Manchestering them.

Well but (say you) - all this while have not discourses and even in writing replete with all these criminal tendencies been circulating - been circulating with the most unbounded licence? You yourself /even you/ are you not a living witness of the groundlessness of these very complaints of yours - by what Jury Special or Common have you been convicted - by what Magistrate committed, by what Attorney General prosecuted. True: the time of every man who has any feeling for his fellow men - among the rest the time of the insignificant individual who is [...?] addressing you is not yet come. Not by Tiberius, not by Nero not by any of the monsters in human shape called Emperors was every man destroyed by whom discontent or disaffection was betrayed. But when among the supporters /those who have raised voice or pen in support/ of uncorruption and reform you have thought of those who have suffered, think whether among those who have thus offended there be that human being who under the men by whom we are governed may not look for his own turn to come tomorrow. Burdet, Wolsely notwithstanding or such by reason of their baronetage Hobhouse notwithstanding or by reason of his having been of the few etc have not the scourge of political martyrdom been already upon them after this how much longer can I how much longer can any body hope to escape? As yet I have been saved /left unmolested/ partly by my insignificance partly perhaps by other considerations which common prudence forbids me to bring to view. But am not I too already a sufferer? a man to whose breast all sense of security has for years past been a stranger is he not a sufferer?

Burdet, Wolseley Hobhouse, Cartwright Hunt /Hunt/ Cobbet Hone