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Richmond , had Charles II . been married to his fair ancestor ? or his Grace of St . Albans , had the royal polyganiiet legalized his penchant for Nell Gwyun ? Mrs . Jordan only wore a mimic diadem ; but real coronets will very well fit the heads of her descendants . And Colonel D'Este is quite a peer ,
though he has not yet been created . The ancient annals of Hanover , as well as those of England , have given occasion for " Historic Doubts , " which are little worth even the inquisition of the antiquarian . The aristocracy may be assured that people care no more about the purity of their noble blood than the purity of their stable puddles . They never mind bar dexter , or bar sinister , unless they are made bare to
improvement . It is the sinister interest in legislature , and not the sinister bar in heraldry , that produces the grievance . The utility of a permanent class , endowed with high privilege and immense property , is the absorbing question ; whether that class be solely replenished in the right line of descent , is a matter of comparative insignificance . That Counsel would have conducted any case , which did not involve the feelings of political antagonism , precisely in the
manner in which this case was conducted , is more than we can affirm . We attempt not to sound the depths of legal consciences . A lawyer ' s duty is so unlike another man ^ s duly , that the ordinary rules of morality avail us not . Sir William Follett was very triumphant in his prevention of the Attorney * General from naving the respite which he wished for , before entering upon the defence . " He did not wish to give hia learned Friend time to decide whether or not he should call
witnesses . " This is plain speaking any how . Whether the fairness , the justice , the morality of it , be those of law or of Toryism , or of both united , we leave the adepts to decide . We must also make a similar reference as to the previous getting
up of the case , the Wonersh rustications , and the complete uncertainty in which the accused was kept about the evidence he would have to repel , and tlie particular time of an act , during a period of five years , against which lie would have to prove a negative . To our simple understandings , unlearned
as we are in the law , all this seems at variance with the elementary principles of justice . Nor could we have uttered that eloquent tirade about the private door , without thinking ourselves great and malignant liars , even though we had been well paid for it , saw a slight chance of being undetected , and knew that , if it escaped exposure , it would only injure the
leader of a hostile political party . Our own tastfe would not have stigmatized as " disgraceful / ' even a somewhat noisy out- * bfeak of popular exultation at the defeat of a foul conspiracy . We should have sympathised in the irrepre&sibility of the honest emotion . But we are no judges .
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Politics of tke Common Pled * . Sqfy
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 399, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/7/
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