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POLITICS OF THE COMMON PLEAS.
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The recent proceedings in the Court of Common Pleas are an exemplary display of the niceness of party warfare , of the species of chivalry that characterizes some of tbe Gentlemen of England , " of the conventionalism and hypocrisy of public writers , of certain beautiful points in the enactments and administration of law , and of the assumed extent of gullibility in the people .
The plaintiff has not been made a fool of in this affair ; that operation being * evidently rendered unnecessary , and indeed impossible , by certain original qualities in his mental constitution . But he has as evidently been made a tool of ; and that most signally . Should he ever become capable of such an act as reflection , his retrospect will be very unenviable ; nor can it be said , that with his folly , his culpability , or his remorse , the
public has nothing to do . He is the nominal institutor of a public process , which will find its place in history , and haa thereby conceded the right of speculating on the possible , and eventually i * ecording the actual denouement of the drama . How it shall fare with the public accuser , on such grounds as he possessed , of the Prime Minister of the country , and of one
of its most fascinating authoresses , is a perfectly legitimate inquisition . Do we not Inquire , and are not great pains taken to inform us , what became of the assassins of Caesar , or the regicides of Charles ? Have we not some curiosity about the hypocrites that murdered Hypatia ? And although there be
certainly little parallel between these tragedies and a civil suit in the Court of Common Pleas , yet one who traffics in the small * wares of a causeless crim . con . action against those in whom the public have an interest , must not anticipate a certain escape into oblivion—their lustre will shed light on any recess into which he may skulk . Were he but Catholic , a
monastery , a monk s cowl , and a new name , might be no inelegible resource . His hard fate denies such shelter . But we leave him to Heaven , " if Heaven will accept the leavings of earth ; only remarking that it is needless to say anything about blowing his bniiiis out . Nature interposes her imum * table laws against that catastrophe . And in this pitiful trial we see the evaporation of a Tory
manoeuvre for breaking up the present administration ! The dirty dogs ; and as ravenous an they sire dirty , and as blind a * tbey are ravenous . Why this is more foolish limn the trick .
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Politics Of The Common Pleas.
POLITICS OF THE COMMON PLEAS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/1/
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