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|> e postponed , bilt nothing have they denounced " as a miserable insult" in the Marriage and Registration Bills , unless it be the clauses that were amended or added by the Tory peers . As a further instance of what , in any man conversant with the topics of which this writer treats , we know not how to characterize except as wilful falsification , take the following sentence :- »»
" Even the Stamp Act , through the medium of which the Whigs , as usual , have levelled a blow at the liberty of the press , has not passed yet , and in its present inquisitorial form can never become a law . " Now the Stamp Act has passed ; and inquisitorial enough many of its enactments assuredly are . But be it remembered that those
inquisitorial enactments have passed by means of the Tories in both Houses ; that , but for the Tories , they would have been thrown out in the Commons ; and that , in their worst features , they are not new enactments , but simply the embodiment of
existing- laws which were fixed on us by Tory tyranny . So much for the honesty of this representation . ' We know the term " inquisitorial" has been rather wrongheadedly applied to the clause , expunged by the Lords , for registering at the Stamp Office the partners in a newspaper . Bai that clause , whether good or bad , did not give its " form" to the Bill ; it was an addition forced upon Ministers ; it only put
newspaper proprietors on a level with many other trading partnerships whose names there is much less reason for rendering ascertain able ; and for that to be singled out as exclusively V inquisitorial /* and a " blow at the liberty of the press" by the advocates and reenacters of the Code Castlereagh , implies no common hardihood .
Referring to the Imprisonment for Debt Bill , and the discussions on the Pension List , and on Military Punishments , the writer thus continues his exultation over baffled Whiggism : — " What then , I repeat , have they done ? They promised to "break open the prisons like Jack Cade ; but as yet the grates are barred ; the pensions are still paid ; and the soldiers are still flogged . "
We cannot stay to comment on the imputation to Ministers , as measures which tney promised , of motions which were made in opposition to them , and were overpowered by their hostility * This was notoriously the case with the Pension List , and the Abolition of Flogging in the Army . In the language just quoted , tfce falsehood is a trifle in comparison with the utter heartlessnqtB , We forget Whiggism and Toryism in the outrage upon our common humanity . He rejoices that the cruel system whieh exp ^ tf * the merely unfortunate to an useless incarceration , has not been mitigated by a measure , of which the only incon ve nience to any class was , that it somewhat trenched upon the imp unity of privileged dishonesty , and made it jnore difficult for ^ radesmea tp ^ bfc cheated and laughed at by a sponging aristocracy . TM * U the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1836, page 541, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2661/page/17/
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