A Letter to Sir Francis Burdett, Bart

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Excerpt from A Letter to Sir Francis Burdett, Bart: With a Criterion Proposed to Ascertain His Patriotism, and Some Reflections on the Subject of ReformIf you and your abettors had intentions of pro-4 scenting your measures bv violence, and'wished to have a free scope, you could not have acted more consistently with such views, than by endeavour ing to prevent the introduction of the military, and by contending that the civil force is sufficient, as this might enable you to dupe and delude the public to become an easy prey to a laess mob Upon any occasion on which you might draw them' forth, ever ready as they are to act where there may be a chance of pillage. All your measures, however, it seems are to be subservient to the in troduction of your favourite plan of Reform, the effect Of which, I suppose, would be to throwithé whole representation of the country into popular elections, and in a short time to introduce a de.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.