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many of his schemes , literary and commercial , have been marked by an oriental magnificence in their conception ; but they have been distinguished also by genuine philanthropy in their tendency . His whole life has been one of enterprise , and consequently sometimes of disappointment , and sometimes of conflict ; and consequently , again , he has enemies both public and private . A circumstance occurred last
year , which excited this enmity to activity . Events have made Mr . Buckingham a lecturer ; and a very interesting lecturer he is : and some of the good people of Sheffield , in return for his enlightening them from his abundant stores of knowledge , concerning the various countries of the East , and our political and commercial relations with those countries , determined , in the event of the Reform Bill recognizing their right to be represented , to exert themselves to send Mr .
Buckingham to the House of Commons . A requisition , respectably signed , was accordingly forwarded to him . This proceeding became the occasion of attacks upon his character in a Sheffield newspaper . Mr . Buckingham returned to Sheffield , and challenged his anonymous accuser to a public meeting . The challenge was not accepted , and Mr . Buckingham defended himself against the various allegations which had been made , in a manner which was unanimously regarded ,
by a vast multitude which had assembled together , as most completely satisfactory and triumphant . But an accuser , who would neither appear nor avow himself , was not likely to submit to this award . The charges were renewed , or others adduced ; and after much skirmishing in the newspapers , it was judged desirable that a complete and
connected reply to the whole should be put forth . Hence the pamphlet before us . Its primary object is to satisfy the electors ( as they are to be ) of Sheffield of the trust-worthiness of their candidate who is to be . So far as those allegations are circulated elsewhere , we can only say , that no man ought to believe them until after this pamphlet has been read , nor to repeat them until after it has been refuted .
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The Cabinet Annual Register , and Historical , Political , Biographical , and Miscellaneous Chronicle for the year 1831 . London . Washbourne . A cheap , comprehensive , and useful summary of facts , and collection of documents . It is intended to be the commencement of an annual series ; and the editor puts in a plea for charitable judgment on it , as a first attempt . He hopes * that if , as a whole , his compilation is 9
deemed valuable , it will not be too severely criticised in parts . But he must bear in mind that the value of the whole is very much dependent upon accuracy in particulars . If there be a * celebrated ' individual , whose name is Robert , he must not call him George , ( p . 384 ) . In speaking of persons or institutions , he must not implicitly rely on . the authority of the newspapers which are hostile to them . Unless on
the supposition of his having done so , we cannot account for the complete tissue of misrepresentations which he has put forth concerning the National Political Union . That institution never called itself 4 Grand , ' or * Central ; ' it never had * district' or 4 parochial branches ;' nor has it ever put forth any document which . Lord Melbourne * denounced as treasonable ; ' nor has anything in its plan or objects ever been declared , by any respectable authority , to be * seditious' or
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Criti&dl Notices . —Cabinet Annual Register . 28 S
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1832, page 285, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1810/page/69/
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