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Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke
Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke Author:Edmund Burke Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE RIGHT HON. EDMUND BURKE TO RICHARD BURKE, JUN., ESQ. London, October 1, 1792. My Dearest Richard, It was with true satisfaction that we received ... more »at Bath your letter from Cork. God Almighty bless you, and direct you in the course you are to take. In it you will neither be governed by a timidity which would enervate you in the execution of your duty, nor by a rashness and heat which would do still more injury in another way. As to your clients, in my opinion, as long as they keep themselves firm to the solid ground of the British constitution, they are safe for the present, and must be successful; but if they suffer any mistaken theorists to carry them into any thing like the principles adopted in France, they will not only be baffled, but baffled with shame. If they have received the fire of the grand juries with a good countenance, I shall hope every thing will go on well. If they are frightened, you may be quite certain that their enemies will fall upon them in that situation, and show them no mercy. They are to look for the renovation of forged conspiracies, judicial murders, and all the horrors of the period from 1761 to 1766. The great in- Vol. iv. c strument of all their oppression is whetting;—I mean the grand juries. It was really three days before I could thoroughly quiet the emotions of indignation, horror, and contempt, which were excited in my mind by that infamous libel, the presentment (or whatever it may be called) of the grand jury of the county of Louth ; that is, Mr. Foster's declaration of war. I had begun a letter to Edward Byrne upon it. Whether it will ever be sent, will depend on circumstances. Now as to other matters. First, I am to tell you, with a heart I hope full of gratitude to God, that your mother advances in her recovery as fast as...« less