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grossest corruption , a system of lying , deceit , and fraud ; the most notorious bribery ; the most beastly intemperance ; a state of things in which these were not incidental evils , but the necessary un- * avoidable consequences of the circumstances which the national mind was bent on changing . They were entreated to change a system that had plunged us into the most expensive , and bloody *
and cruel , and unjust wars ; that has saddled the nation with an enormous and overwhelming debt ; that has favoured the grossest abuses of public trust in the army , the navy , the court , the cabinet ; that in short has made the nominal representation of the people the real tools of faction in the other house , the pander to
the greedy appetite for idle luxury of hosts of their dependents , and that has formed a pension list of disgraceful profligacy wrung from the wearied hands of the nation—the bishops' gentle sheep to be given to those , who could more justly be called their rampant goats . That boroughmongers , that friends of corruption , that enemies to change , be it for the better or worse , should
withstand the wishes of the people '; that they should pant for the struggle in which their vanity concealed from themselves their utter weakness ; that they should hypocritically denominate the subservience of the commons , the balance of the legislative power to make the motion equable , and the work smooth—yes , smooth to those who advanced none of the capital , paid for none of the labour , but monopolize the whole of the produce , which this
expensive well-working machinery created , —this indeed was natural . But that the bishops should , like Gallio , care for none of these things that stink in the nostrils , —that cried to heaven for vengeance on the authors of so much depravity and vice , —that * were aq notorious as the sun at noon day , ' ¦—that they should wish to uphold the * evil , and set themselves against all the wishes and prayers of the people , and stick
by the proud aristocratic fashion that ha , s since been tumbled to the dust 1—who doubts , ye mitred heads ! that your patriotism is equal to your zeal and virtue , that your piety is entitled to the rich reward that it enjoys ; that your elevation i $ as subservient to the public good , as your exertions for the people ' s cause are notorious . What man can doubt , who is pot blinded by party prejudices , by antiquated ceremonies , by shadows , and chimeras , and hobgoblins , that have survived the dark ages in which they en
w ^ re gendered , that your days are numbered ; that a Christian people , and a Christian church , will not much longer tolerate the farce of your princely elevation , thq burden of your luxurious and proud maintenance , or the perversion of useful property to the support of the most extravagant and farci ^ &l sinecures , which this gulled nation ha ^ s hitherto once admired , Ippg endured quietly ; but long felt to be an unworthy temptation placed ! in the way of men , wfio ought to be mov $ d by better motives , and pressingforward to a , nobler prize .
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474 What constitute * a BUhap ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1832, page 474, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1816/page/42/
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