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friends ^ and PpHVtt has frWidsJ hut ttiho areJUii > idi to Borner [ + totefcs , I will add , when it serves their own interest - When a minister can get in * and k « cj > in , by doing , what te right ; by pleasing the kipg , and serving himself at the same time that he is supporting- the
people ' s cause , it is very well : but their cause is always the last thing thought of . I have been very poorly , and almost worn out by reading-long speeches , without finding a single argument to make me alter my sentiment * but a great deal of f oreign matter , illiberal
language , and a want of honesty in the majority on both sides of the house . With respect to the state coachman , I could have gone > with him the first stage with great spirit , the next with some pleasure , and perhaps one or two more with tolerable composure ; but I must have stopt short of the place at which he is tmw arrived * r even it I had
been left destitute and alone . But there would have been no danger of being left to pine in solitude , as there are * tHl some , and I trust , many indepen * dent houses on the road > inhabited by spirits , who , not being , blinded by party , passion , or private interest , are ready to take in an honest weary traveller , who is unwilling to be driven farther ,
mere-. ly for the sake of making perpetual dictator * a coachman , who has never listened to the travellers , but when it has been evidently for his own advantageV
lilrs . Jeblps conviction of the aelfish policy 5 of ttoe * pr ^ liiiier was * c 0 trfirmnkl by his de $ drtion of his j & $ y ' fgicguh mpp ^ n ^ m anrf his decided ; hostility ! tio every
motion for the- repeal of the Te&Act , J&f Of , tbojse inioletont taws ; fgghat Mtmjp&h m ; P rt ?^ r , mMi ^ 11 ui&gracetueipeoal cqde n < 1 > n tthe abolition of ^ tbe slave-tttf ^ Je , Avhich bad now bfeporae an o ^ ct M&nzfci teateth ; , % : fcaf&jft-¦
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of a few individuals interested fe the nefarious concern / Sut amidst such repeated disappointments , Mrs . Jebb rejoiced to see the Tight of jipries to ^ fidge ' of the law as well as the fact in cases of libel
at length triumphantly established by the British parliament ; and the Roman Catholics of Ireland admitted to the full enjoyment of the elective franchise in that country , on the express recom mendation of the crown .
Mrs . Jebb had already hailed the auspicicrtis dawn of the French Revolution , and , sympathised in the emancipation of a great peopk from despotic power * . She had augured every thing , good from that event , and she feared no
impending ill ; as appears in the fol . lowing extracts . . from her correspondence with Mr . Brand Hollis , already inserted in the Memoir * of his life . In a letter dated July 24 * 1 ^ 9 0 , she obserye $ z
** Till yesterday I Had not seen anac . couufc flow the great and important day concluded in France . } , If the king of France < Jhd not feel himself on that daj superiorto an the tln ^ and empcron that ever tyraohistd over mankind , ho 4 oes not deserve the hdnour that wiH
atfenci on . his name to tt * e end of time . Ye ^ tones think if he had any spirit , h * Voilid not have Unbenxt himself , and jfubmttted loTiavc been directed by th * Na ~
JmmakyisfemHy * that if > asking is not absolu ^^ he is nq kina jj iif he ia , govern * eaby bw ministcrsj they reign , » 6 t hej they thiA he coulcT ^ ottdkc t 5 coath mimgiyj htk th * t M ^ + rtis owin % to XoWy and cofwafdice .: ¦ Jn thcimean time
I # J ??* ^^ rior ^ apd h ^ pp ^ to the French and their kinfif ; aD (* ° tMi ^ M tf 4 % * o * i i liberty t » be jtjWin ^ ito tri » mphiovcr bigotry and ar-^^ Jl ^ i ^^ l ^^^ ^^ nc ^ ytniraiu '^ v ^ 2 ^ 3 tSSer ^ rf ** ^ titarina ^^ Lli ^ ' ^!^ mm destroyed prxntlaved $ thankful that i am h ^ ct ^ ef a ditpyfition tp ijrAKmi Af ••*'
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662 Memoirs : of Mrs . Jebb .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1812, page 662, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1754/page/2/
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