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rtnl objection to the Imprisonment for Debt Bill . It established the liability of landed property- It laid all kind * of propettjp open to the claims of the just creditor ; and having done sft , " forbade the vindictive retention of the debtor ' s person in prison . And this law agaimtt propertied rascality on the one hand , and against useless savage revenge on the other ; this measure of jus *
tice and humanity , presents as hateful a spectacle to the Tory adyocfrte as Jack Cade freeing the felons . That such a Bill should have been , thrown out b y the Lords , is scarcely more lamentable than that such a writer should glory in its rejection . Most ungrateful is his triumph over the Whigs on the topics of pensions and military flogging . They have , unfortunately fof their own characters , secured to his party for the present all the satisfaction which they can reap from either * They shall still
bear the " music of the chink , " even though it be the wages of prostitution , political , literary , or personal ; and may still regale themselves by beating time to the strokes of the cat upon tbd . soldier ' s bare and bleeding back . It has not been told out before bow much these sounds administer of glee and gladsotneness . The blind joy which forgets their obligation to Whig help in its
overflowing gratulation , shews how dearly both areprized * We come here to the heart , or rather to the core , of Toryism . To prey in idleness upon the hard-earned means of the industrious ; and to keep down , not only parliamentary inquiry by votes , but popular feeling by a hireling soldiery , whom the lash has sufficiently brutalized for that purpose , are its cherished aims—its heartfelt purposes . It feared that a Whig Ministry would be too
honest , or too popularity-seeking , to allow of either ; and finding that they are safe , throws up its cap , and hurras over the very allies that Won its infamous battle . " The pensions are still paid ; and the soldiers are still flogged ! " No matter for friend or foe ; no matter for suffering and oppression ; crush the heart ' s blood out of the overtaxed labourer , and flo # the soldier into a hardened villain , who will murder at command ; the peril is passed ; whip
in hand and money in purse , we defy the world ; € i the pemlons are Still paid ; and the soldiers are still flogged . " And if common rumour or internal evidence is to be trusted , this 1 $ the author of " Vivian Grey , " of " Contarinl Fleming / ' and of the ' * Revolutionary Epic V Even if they are not to oe
credited , it is still the language of " a man as good as he : " of a m £ fc of noble capabilities , and formed by nature for hirh purposes . Of thte the volume affords abundant proof . And this Is our re&goti for bringing it before our readers ; this is the fact on which We 4 efife to fix their attention ; and having done so , our main ptiVpofte iff anffwef ed . Of all the evil trorkingsof the system by ttfifchthe ti&tftfi ha » U 6 foitg been governed , ana from which it is now onfy , Ilk * the liori
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1836, page 542, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2661/page/18/
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