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NOTES ON THE NEWSPAPERS.
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Dear Hazlitt , I cannot help accompanying my sister ' s congratulations to Sarah with some of my own to you , on this happy occasion of a man child's heino- born .
Delighted fancy already sees him some future rich alderman or opulent merchant ; painting , perhaps , a little in his leisure hours for amusement , like the late H . Bunbury > Esquire . Pray , are the Winterslow estates entailed ? I am afraid lest the young dog , when he grows up , should cut down the woods , and leave no groves for widows to take their lonesome solace in . The Wem estate , of course , can only . devolve on him in case of your brother leaving no male issue .
Well , my blessing and heaven ' s be upon him , and make him like his father , with something a better temper , and a smoother head of hair ; and then all the men and women must love him . Martin and the bard-boys join in congratulations . Love to Sarah . Sorry we are not within caudle-shot . C . Lamb .
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ORIGINAL LETTER FROM THE LATE CHARLES LAMB TO WILLIAM HAZLITT , ON THE BIRTH OF HIS SON .
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this difference in the argument , that Mr . Murphy maintained that the people were not yet enfranchised , while Lord John contends that they are , at least so far as is expedient . He has adopted the objection , therefore , stripped of the only assumption that prevented its being the strongest of all recommendations . Mr . Murphy would have the electors responsible to the non-electors , because he thinks the latter have an
Lord John Russell ' s Objection io the Ballot . — ' My objection is , that secret voting gives the electors irresponsible power . ' We should have broadly affirmed that only a Whig lord could have made this fact an objection , had we not heard it before from the mouth of Thomas Murphy , of Marylebone , at the Political Union . But then there was
equal right to the suffrage . Wanting that , he would preserve some influence over its exercise as the next best thing . But Lord John is not for the extension of the suffrage . He thinks the non-electors have not the right nor the qualification . Mr . Murphy pleads for responsibility to what he regards as a competent tribunal ; Lord John , for responsibility to a tribunal which he regards as incompetent . Both overlook the fact , that the responsibility is in proportion to the power of annoyance or
of reward , and that thi& power resides chiefly , not in the non-electors , hut in the rich electors , in their \ arious capacities of landlords , masters , customers , &c . &c , besides the direct influence of their money . To this class alone does the responsibility really refer . And if , as to tliis class , the poorer voters are not to be 'irresponsible , ' there is an end of all that freedom and purity of election which his lordship so loudly praises . This notion of responsibility i& tranuferred from trusts which have no
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1835, page 134, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2642/page/54/
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