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    HJHfr ^ mim Compmvf rtfumd gfantauch compensation , and declined tepipjUiMa'P any piopoaHion wh « gtew « f on the subject . limt your PetitipQe ^ s h * vnt > l y , jieg tp a asure , ^ ur H onourajble House , that they regard such a denial of Justice as this to be h \ gh derogatory to the British name and reputation : as it appears to your PirtiUmjfefH that a British subject has been banished wfehattt

    trial—punished without conviction—and ruined in ail his fortunte and pursi&itR , WJ&o > i * t even the allegation of his having been guilty of any crirne . Ttatt when the great charter of English liberty guaranteed to the sutgects of this realm , that no man should be punished but by the judgment of his peers—that all punishments should be proportioned to the offence—( hat there should be no wrong without a remedy—and that justice shoujd neither be delayed nor denied to any man—your'

    Petmoners humbly conceive , that these protecting privileges were meant to be extended to all Englishmen , in whatever part -off HiiS Majesty ' s dominions they might happen to be . That , in the case of the said James Silk Buckingham , your Petitioners regret to perceive that all these principles of English liberty have been violated , without necessity , and without adequate cause ; for he bas been punished without judgment of his peers—his punishment has

    be > fe whollydisproportioned to his alleged offence- —he has feuffer ^ tl ti ffHtvdus wrong , without having any remedy at law for the sante- —atitt Iw wott than twelve years past , during which the facts of hi * case bUve bfefcti so often before the public , as to be familiar to almost every one who rcWb , justice has been delayed and denied—without his having yet been yravfcd to be guilty of any other offence than that < rf adyqgqftiiig t i * { tftHa , that freedom of trade , freedom of > settlement , and freedom of , publication , which were formerly denied to Englishmen in th ^ i

    00 uyBtary ^ but which are now happily made , by the last charter for India , t&e established law of the land . Yo * ir Petitioners cannot bring themselves to believe that the aclvocmiiog and practising in India what both Houses of the Legislature , and His jtyEp ^ taty on the thron e , have since sanctioned and approved , and whn | tfct most distinguished Goveniors-General of India , past and

    presfi ^ hfure publicly declared to be as great a blessing and advantage to KMMt M . it is in England , and to every other well-governed country , ( Mptety , i the fVeedom ; of the press—subject only to the control of the hMli as aiftmitiisteretf by a judge and jury , ) ought to be considered in aiif ^^ Wffer light than that of a public virtue and a public good : and , tfctf » ilbre , they humbly conceive that the summary banishment and ar- > llfihirt ^ ViJhl Of atl honourable individual , without trial or convicfiotihe of ad

    sW-I ^ Mfti ^ y ^ 1 togw d ground than that was guilty vocating and practising the freedom of the press—cannot be defended by any prin-2 sjjkt >* f the Biiiiih Constitution , to the very spirit and essence of which i | % M ^ T ** & JtntU ^ lf repugnant . . T ^^^ your honourable Hoiwe , 4 ^ . 20 U ^ w 4 U fcp cieased to give your sanction to such a 8 ) 1 1 ., a » gjjypi $ * < ftWr James Silk ; Buckingham to recover , from ihe gaet mfWSmwML mtiwik&aaittto * , whieh the Select ComitiiUee offtte * eir oWnioii

    mm"WWimm : ^^^ * to ** itrtanimous that'tftk iiar ^^ ftffl ^ R ^^ m % * to ti . m , for the ^ slctictibft t ^ Wp * o 4 < H < H ' mti , ff * m * i * d by the iMaaures herein before mentioned AA ^ % Ut tmtK ** n ; as in duty bound , will ever pray . " '

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 804, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/48/