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    life . He is > a prejudiced roan ; hi ^ tf ^ inMig b ^ a given hinj sundry unsound notions on the subject of loyalty , which will not be& ? jtjie test of ^ re ^ so ^ r ^ y ^ bisU ^ i ^ no ^ cw ^ o ^ m to ; tfye dc ^ trines of utility agreeable to sound ftadioal principles . He cannot imagine a rtjfpde of good rule which does not comprise the three ingredients of > thp s British Constitution / King , LorcU > and Commons . He cannot

    imagine a King of England to be capable of wrong-doing . This prejudice seems as strong now as it was in the beginning of his career , and will probably be the rock on which he will split . His attachment to the ' House of Brunswick' seems so inordinate , that he can believe nothing derogatory of them . In his speech in the House of Commons , in February , 1810 , he is excessively indignant because

    * Ministers , with the word economy in their mouths , but with extravagance in their hearts , had placed a falsehood in the Speech of the Prince Regent . ' In April , 1818 , he declared , in the same place , ' There was not in the three kingdoms a warmer friend to the House of Brunswick than himself ; he was bred up in the principles that placed that family on the throne . ' * * * ,. ¦ ¦?

    In his speech at Durham , in October , 1819 , we find him upholding the Prince Regent , through thick and thin , on the occasion of the Manchester massacre : ' Some slave had brouerht forward the words on the banners of the

    meeting that day— " Liberty or Death / ' as a proof of the traitorous nature of the meeting ! When the time came that the coupling of those words should be deemed the harbinger of rebellion , he should be glad to clisowh the country which had given him birth . ( Loud applause . ) Who had heard unmoved the song of Scottish independence burst upon his ear ?

    " Who would be a traitor knave ? Who would fill a coward's grave ? Who would live to be a slave ? Let him turn and flee . Who for Scotland ' s king and law—For Scotland ' s rights his sword would draw ? Freeman stand , or freeman fa '—

    Let him follow me . " ( Applause . ) He , for one , would not consent in silence to hear such sentiments branded as seditious . ' It was the cry of libeTty , in similar terms , which expelled the Stuarts , and made way for the Brunswick family to the throne of these realms . Conscious as he was , that it was the reverence of those principles which

    would keep them on the throne to which they had been raised , he was much alarmed at witnessing the approbation which had been bestowed on the transactions at Manchester , in the name of the Prince Regent , But they might be assured , from the natural goodness of the Prince Regent s heart , that the sentiments were those of hie Ministers only . * ' Natural gopdne * $ of the Prince RegeritV heart !* If £ Ver

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1835, page 265, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2644/page/41/