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[Two Letters hate &wit iddreSsed Sy Major taftivright le egegl
floliand, on the treat co -stifles of political right, upon which
the 'theft), and hap boils of she nation sleeved. occasioned
by his Lordship's Observations la the Hostile of Lords on the
27th of Febroaryinat„ alluding in a 'particular man/left°
Major Cartwright and the Reformers. Tt:e f •Ilowing is the'
drat letter in reply folds LOrdship'sretaarksj— • ° •
TQ THR. IttOHT. MIN. HEStRY RICHA RI, tef ASSAF*
FOX. LORD HOLLAND, F.ll AN I) ICS. RECORDER
OF NO I TIAGHAMt dte. &e. Itc. . i -
April ti 1818.04 -
MY Lben,—For the greater. pertpi‘-eiry, wtsat it
have flow to silbmit to yew conliderition will be di.. 7 7.
TOM into intrOddriiiiii, Aso!, Comnseistary, anst, •
Conclutiois. Thi Test will eentain in at few storelq,• - •
as possible, the condensed tyletAir if the doctrine I- •
maintain, en ihrei teveraleubjeete, timely, . '
• ISt. Parliatieetary authority, co far as respects IN
extent and its limitation.
~ -4d. The nation's right to universal freedom ; end,. •
3d. This nation4s right to. Parliaments of a duration'
not exceeding ode year.
These topics being its their nature intersioVen, thi
Commentary will of coarse be .tnech more Jae.*
then the Test ; and, in consequence of the notice it
irony be necessary, to take of ether disputants, and Use.
aiirisitts they hails in view, le will he somewhat un...
4ditliodical although I treat always illestrative. .• .
, .. IN TRODULTION.
• .. In my letter-14'th* lit March was annoonCed • an
lintention, if lellere elided allow, of addressing to .
year Lordship, some obsevvitiuns on the relative is4l .
/badly of the tiatidtr, •edd of its Parliament. That '
_Wendel Is no* se be carried into etecution ; thd
,circemstances which hair Riven rise to their proceed.
ing, biltleg been grit detailed.
. • 0. Ilebatday, the 628th of Febteery, the Morning
Chroviidorepokted your Lordship to Mee imputed to
are, by name, in your Rleedis Parliament, matters •
of which I was dot colliteleu'e'. .
i- ' Not Altinking.it rigilldiiet to such a case on any
ontberity bat yoir oril.l;- I wrote to you the neat
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day, the Ist Moab, fequestiiig correct information.
Ors the 3d ybur 'Lordship, Wilts a Vankness for which
I honour yeti, having relieved me from Ali difficulty,
11,- how take op the pen of expostulation.
r It is by candid comilisinicatioos, and by free dig-
citation, that .discrirdances in °plains:4 touching the
great questions on which depend the linerty and hap-
piness of our country, are gradually dissolved and re-
moved. How great poem° may he th A apparent dis-
tance by which, on airy point, your Lordship's no-
tions and mine may be separated. yet, that being Mt
intellectual distance, our union nosy nesesilteless he
speedy, provided either of us can throw the light of
truth on the question in dispute ; fur in that case,
whether our previous diiresetsco were great or small,
it must instantly vanish.
In your letter of the II of March, year Lordship
says, " I do not pretend to recollect the precise •
words I used in alluding to you, but I certainly men-
tineod you by name, and referring ti. your political
works, as founded on erroneous principles of go.
vernment, and a mistaken view of history, employ.
ed I believe the term blunders. Many O. I your stilted
.menus in favour of Annual Portion:en!. and Univer-
sal Suffrage do In reality appear to me to be such.
".I know therefore no reason why I should not
so characterize them, especially as, in my judgment,
the propagation of your doctrines has, without any
such intention on your part, been highly injuirious to
the cause of freedom, and furnished a pretence at
least, if not a real motive for the adoption of these
measures, which I do you the justice to believe es-
cite es much regret and indignation in your mind as
my own."
Be assured, my Lord, that you had not the smallest
occasion for apprehending that " perhaps you had
.used too much freedom its ezpressing your sense of
the Went and consequences" of my supposed errors.
No : it is out to those who speak out, but to those
from whom no answer can be extorted, or who do
i not give one consistent with integrity, I impute
blame, and I con with verity, repeat a sentiment in
giyietter of the lit of March, namely, that I ant
truly desirous of correcting any political errors of
my own, which shall be made known to me end
distinctly specified. To your Lordship I have sc.
keueledgments to make. respecting misapprehensions
fl(,!`'.history;" but. en such misapprehension hate in-
uenced my "principles of government"' ehich, is
I %hall show, have been drawn from a far superior end
more instructive source. • •
My " principles of government," respecting the
extent and limitation of Parliamentary authority, had
been touched on, in a letter to Sir Francis Burdett,
Chairman of a Meeting held on the V of February,
•in connexion with a remark or t,wo on the speech of
your
the Tack Dwarf on the
That tatter
appeared in
4th, and in the Stsrasants on the sth of February,
and the matter being of, fundamental importance, I
will now repeat the whole of my observations on that
speech. They were as; fellows :—" It has lately
rl been seellesid in the House of 'Ards that the right
which had been suspended was not one
.which had
been granted by Parliament. The persooal liberty
of the People was no coneriet On. It ts,es a right an.
secedent to any Stakte, sod equal to the rights of
their Lordship, 'ovine in tWat Witte, or to the right
'.olthe King to sit on the TltiOui."
•' di this part of the speech, I obeerted„ Oat," with
submission to lie Noble Speolp4, Or 44.40, per-
tell fteedoti,is superior 1.1 !Awe! thee' tighttbat no.
-flied; inasmuch as it is iokeiede, :rate .010.10 ere
ptif
rived; it le original, and *dieted Atielk lovens-
ioEnt i..whereas,,those of the Lords tint of the King
are the mere concomitants .( trust, conferred by, sad .
to bstssCoded for, the benefit of the People." .
• `Anal...adid, '‘. the Noble 1.4 d is retorted to
11.."61. ineceedeil thue. • lie did net, Mee* to say that
there - was any ebsolete‘iimituliori tr.. the power of
lieirliesiept on
,this subject, -*lien efkirnstosfes tea-dIVT;(1 SiiChAiirddi of pepice.listiiirkniable.
• .Bo,ing,ae that time inteht only on de topic of the
itteftwdlog pester, I quoted" ago motif of your Lord-
ship's.. wordy We • sere the* recotairy-to- my a rim..
meet ; but sow I must von' • lbsse you were farther,
repotted io speaking ,of i " Mischief" Ministers
wire actin, to base reek. , gi the meat degree of
comparison the 6' • ety to result from
visionary schemes of liefOrne."
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