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Publications of this class usually derive their interest from the ass am potion of their telling-more truth than contemporary history records , while their form is an exemption from any responsibility as to telling historical truth at all . They are often frameworks for pictures which , if correct , public justice requires should be verified ; and which , if not correct , ought not to have been delineated ; at least not in connexion with scenes and persons known to have had a real and recent existence . We should therefore have preferred a different form for that moral dissection of the cr iracter of George IV . which is presented to us in this tale . At the same time we must say that it is performed with a steady and able hand . The narrative is constructed in a masterly manner , both for interesting the feelings and impressing the jtufgment . The author ' s powers of description are exercised under the guidance of philosophical analysis and directed to the promotion of moral principle . The last few pages of the novel leave an impression on the mind similar to that noble conception which Voltaire embodied in the soliloquy which concludes his tragedy of Mahomet .
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What the People Ought to do , in choosing their Representatives at a General Election : a Letter addressed to the Electors of Great Britain by Junius Redivivus . Is . The object and tendency of this letter nearly coincide with those of our first article , and therefore it is needless to say that they have our cordial approval . This pamphlet ought to be extensively circulated .
The pledges proposed are nine in number ; but substantially the same with the five we have recommended . At least they would ensure the same principles in the candidate . The writer displays all the elasticity and causticity of style which have , in combination with higher qualities , made his nom de guerre distinguished . His character of . Lord Grey is a powerful sketch : 4
L . ord Grey is not all that could be wished ; he is behind the spirit of the age . Liberal in many things , he is deeply prejudiced in many others . He is imbued with the spirit oi \ caste ; he clings to the absurd dig-nity of his order . He is a cold , good , honourable man , who would probably suffer himself to be torn by wild horses , rather than break his pledge ; but he does all this as a debt which is due to his own
reputation , and not because it is an act of justice towards the people . There is no warmth , no enthusiasm in him , no fellow feeling-. He shrinks from the touch of the people , as though it were pollution ; and what he gives them , is given , Coriolanus like , out of his own bounty , not in answer to their claim . As Charles Grey , in the days of his youth , lie said that the house of Commons required remodelling to a given extent ; and as Lord Grey , in his age , he adheres to the same thing ; but he
would run a whole country upon the verge of wreck , rather than inflict the smallest indignity upon the aristocratic class whose interests are wrapped around him . Peace be with him ! He has had the fortune to command the vessel while her gallant crew have borne her safely through the breakers ; and when she reaches the harbour , his best course will be gracefully to resign his commission to those better fitted for the modern system of navigation . Those who can honour
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Critical tfoiice * .- ~ Politic 3 . 503
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1832, page 503, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1816/page/71/
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