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done him , and witnessed by names " some of winch were afterwards greatl y distinguished in the parliamentary history of the time . " It is highly interesting . " Mr Moyle / ' so runs the apo" T doe acknowledge I have done you a greate injury , which I Wish I had never done , and doe desire you to remit it ; and I desire that all unkindnesse may he forgiven and forgotten betwixt us , and henceforward IthaH desire and deserve your love in all friendly offices , as I hope you
will mine . " Jo . Elyott * . "—p . 5 . JSIJr Forster shows that this apology was sincerely offered , with b wish to " obtain and deserve the love of the man he had lllfltiiy injured ; " and , moreover , that " he did obtain it ;" It is Hot our intention to follow the biographer through his Ktttbry of the time , but there are some points in which the genius of Sir John Eliot shines forth so grandly , and his unbending and dauntless integrity to do and suffer , stand out so pre-eminently , that t&ey must be noticed . The first of these is his speech on the impeachment of Buckingham : —
^ The proud minister , who had kept his seat during the haraague of Digges , insolently braving his accuser , and jeering his quaint expressions , w 4 s Observed to leave the house when Eliot , on the following * day , arose . It tvaa well for himself that he had done so . Never was an attack made , ih that or any succeeding time , so eloquent , so bitter , so earnest , so disdainfaL ' The orator excelled himself . He had summoned to his service all his literary accomplishments , and he closely environed his argument with a passion that was absolutely terrible . "—pp . 42 , 43 . jVlfcer , describing the ambition and the deceit of the duke , his victims * his extortions , and the misery of the people , the highinmded orator thus continued : —
" i That which was wont to be the crown of virtue and merit is now become a merchandise for the greatness of this man , and even justice is m * 4 e his prey ! The most deserving offices , that require abilities to discJUaxge &exu , are fixed upon the duke , his allies , and Kindred . He hath < toawn to him and his , the power of justice , the power of honour , and t $ & power of command , —in effect , the whole power of the kingdom , botn ftfr peace and war 1 ' Eliot then painted a mournful picture of the remirt Of the favourite ' s extortions in the present state of the kmg 8 om , the revenues destroyed , the fountain of supply exhausted , th 6 t ) Grv& of the ^ lftnd relaxed / placing beside it , in vivid and indignant contract , the gbtgeoushess of Buckingham ' s possessions . ' He intercepts , consumes , and cshBuats the revenues of the crown , not only to satisfy his own lustful dsftires , but the luxury of others ; and , by emptying the veins the blood should run in , he hath cast the body of the kingdom into a high consumption * Infinite sums of money , and mass of land exceeding the value of money , nay , even contributions in parliament , have been heaped upon him ; ana how have they be € n employed ? Upon costly furniture , sumptuous feasting , and magnificent building , the visible evidences of the erpress exhausting uf the state ! And yet his ambition , ' proceeded
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404 Eminent British Statesmen .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 464, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/4/
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