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for UxpQte pran | g £ U | g daily alterations H ir fffiSm /** ' W ^ M * $ * W ^ W ™ U ¦ otee f '^^ g ^ f ^ s ££ ° ^ f t ^ eiE W ° PPY i&t Judicious mirtSiases , whose value will b 4 i 7 I •• Oil . I - 1 * Mf ^ "¦ JU . : Hi . . - . - „ ¦ , ¦ * - ¦ . £ uicrease ^ tg , diminishing the , number oivojes llrat baye * |> eeri purthasecL Syiuptori 8 of tnfe ' may be seen in many parts of England , where * aTruinous cottage with a our ^ ragp tenure is preferred to a ( rood house , i whose inhabitant might not be so submissive , fo £ i * e order of his landlord .
2 s wi&' awear suxyrising that many persons of Jarge lauded property should be advocates for the ' present . system , ' and even those' who ^ ' ekpend very large sums of mibuey W become the representatives of a couu'Vy , wHich sums would purchase with ease two or more seats in parliament . But many priornalies of this kind arise out of thei We ^^ iljL sy ^ te ro j arid it cannot be denied
thaiititt % vjrj&&j \ s of very great eminence ^•^ P ^ SfiM ^ V-PW ^ B ^ S are mtra-: ^^^^ femeans of private ^^^ WMSSbP & & tbrdtagh the trouble ^ ' ^^^ i ^ H they . did cdnld ereale ^^«^?^ ' ^ tSufficient interes t for their rettirn . ' BiA evcii ihis is scarcely
an argument against reform , for talents t * ittfi « d their way , and there would be no want pf tbfm if tlie field of popular-excr » tion ^ ere extended . The " present state of the House has ' grown out of a variety of circumstances . Person ' s minds are niore alive to it now than ever , and if nothing is 4 otic there is danger of the House sinking intw contempt > or it will be perpetually agitilted rW 1 ; % e renewal of the same question .
Xfc ' e' ^ ti $ pcci ' sio ! i of the Jrtabcas t ' cJcpus Ac ^ tBas taken |> lace and a number of yvrf > onfc are' irt consecjuence of it now in a 8 raf * i of connn ^ rhent . It is to be hoped that those who have been placed there on acC 6 unt '' of the Spencean plan maV be brought to trial , as the nation will then sre what foundation triers was of danger troni ttiat quarter . Very few persons
profeat > iy are acquainted either with ihe author" or Ills' plan , and indeed the writer ftefer saw the latteV till some time after his last report was before the public . Tlie fact id that if the pla » i bad been published ' in the name mantitr as that of Sir Tnopas ^ More ' s in his Utopia , it might like that have fcMind its waV into the closets of trie
studious , and have excited very Tittle general attention . From the notice takert af it by the present administration , vvtr must be led to presume that certain persons liftve reftlly 'undertaken to realize it . But if that is actually the case , a madder plan perhaps tte ^ er entered ! into ftie mind of roao ; for it stippdBr ^ . tbat these persons imagined that they could overthrow * the 'whdte tenure of landed property ujl ¦ ' tjift .
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kingdpni ^ ^^ f e-roofreirnitii o ^ M <> t ^ A < frr ; P l «^ ur «» . Tc > ii ^ O } thi » H ^ ii u . qtvid « str tl | a 4 a pro ^ igio ^^ fo ^ ejwaubl bwureffili&itii ^ at | 4 it U 4 \ tg ^\ t fo $ tk $ ho * v it c 6 ttld iiq raised , as ^ ou rpan y p ^ r * wa » are int ^ reKbtHl * intfee present sta ^ i pf ^ Ikio ^ tt > adia i ^^ of . a change , a » 4 much less '; rvf a change ^ : which even to t \ i ^ laljorio ^ s part of tisa . community must appear disadvantageous *
What then i § the strt-ugtb -o £ tli ^ a n ^ w , party it remains for ti ^ jje . fco ^ evelope , 4 If five hundred person ^ in the United King < r dorn are engaged in it , the number will be thought extraordinary ; ajuj if a hundred times that number Had taken it op , little could they effect . The plan woald destroy itself by being made generally known , and treated with the . contempt it deserves » At the same time it must be
observed that the tenure of land in several parts of the world is of a touch inore ojijectionable njiture , and that if a nationwere formed upon the Speucean-plan , its history might furni | U to the politician many curious facts , and its operations on its neighbours would be no Ijbsji extraordinary than those of the banditti by . whttm Home was built , and of the . people , formed by the system of Lycurgus .
The bill on seditious meetings has occasioned considerable debates , kntf ftf ^ pffyvisions are of a ' most e 3 Ctrabr < fenar-y ^ nk % i ^ . In fact , till the whole has pass ed into an act , ft wrll not be possible ferHbi ^ peopIe of England to know in what situation they stand \ but according to present appear-r ancc ^ it will be very dijlicult for the in
to act , for having been axcustouaed - tf * indulge in a freedom of debate and a libefty which has raised them tb ^ , the degree of § mine . pee they possess m thts political \ yord they will not easily l > e brought to curb their tongues , guf } t 0 pace in tlje trammels prescribed ? ^ J&HJ .
them- J ^ ibcrty is a ble ^ siog bcypnt } jftll others , tt is tbc parent pf ; ev ery ^ tjajig great and goo ^ J . Li ^ ke other blessings \ % may be abused , but if in porre ^ tipg tW ^ evils ^ he sacred principles of ijjiertx ^?^ crushed , at ! inroad Is inade on % l ^ p . ftrU of the peopie lyhich will gradually , fcgej etpk larged till such a nation becotnej ; the
contempt of its neighbours , ^ jperiencv ^ has , ^ iiewn us how great qations have sunk into insignificance . T ^ ? , ^ . Jf ° . l ? ntry may have performed the task aligned to , it by PrQvidence ; arid if liberty ^ i » pot held in the high estimation in Tvhicfc | t
was in former periods of our history , the abridgment of it will be littje felt . It mu ^ t be remembered , however- that with , loss of " liberty we lose all the sources pf jjur wealth , and this may make even the ^ nost fearful of ^ si ^ poie ^ d apger | o ( £$ & jp resejit . cri ^ Q $$ ft& ( h ^^ th f ^ > feuqn ^^ . much upon * L , r ,, v j -. , ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1817, page 190, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2462/page/62/
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