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The freedom of England in contra-distinction to Pitticism
The freedom of England in contradistinction to Pitticism Author:Unknown Author 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: but they Ttill not feed by the disclosure the idle curiosity even of well-wishers to the cause; nor on any account will they gratify the insolent, the malicious,... more » and malignant faction opposed to the Freedom of England, for reasons that have been already explained. That Mr. Cust, as a lawyer, should make his first essay in a bad cause, surprises me not in the least; but that he should make it worse by the total absence of ingenuity, eloquence, learning, and logic, did indeed fill me wiih surprise, and whilst it has proved to the world that he will never sit on the woolsack, or wear my Lord Ellenborough's wig, it gives the melancholy picture of our degeneracy as a county, more expensive and wealthy than most in the empire,—when a man without talents of any kind can be placed in the seat of wisdom and high trust, by the power and influence of diriy private interests o/ily. Ingenuity in a weak cause, Mr. Cust, would have bit off any other claim upon our suffrage than that of an obsolete descent from a fusty old speaker's chair, were it only that of keeping out a sturdy Whig, until a more favoured Tory than yourself should take it into his wise head to ASSUME his father's duties. Eloquence, Mr, Cust, would have eulogized any other principles than the well-known ones of a family whose head is the present Lord Brownlow. Learning, Mr. Cust, would have cited a thousand cases against swearing by compulsion, on the hustings to qualification, and but one on record to the contrary. Logic, Mr. Cust, would have been scandalized at the position of a Jew, more sordid than Jews in general are,—of such a Jew as this, making a free gilt, of six hundred pounds a year, all in land, tohis brother! when silence on the subject wonlrl have been the best of arguments. I am assured by the commonest of ...« less