Excerpt from A Letter From Earl Stanhope, to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Containing a Short Answer to His Late Speech on the French Revolution
Sir, T was v'vith regret, and with no fmall de'g'feé 'offlfurpi'ife, that I read, yefier day, a Parnphlet purporting to [be the fubfiance of your Speed) in the Ho'ufe of Commons, on Tuefday the Ninth in. Rant, in which it is\ Rated to be of eon Eféquente, to you not to be mg'fimdwfiood, Ifhould have been fiill more af'toniihed at that mof't extraordinary Produé'tion, B lmdhad'i not'had former oppdrtumtles obferiving the curious tenets of your Political Creed. You fay that *the French have made their way through the defirdétion inf their Country, to a bad Conflitu'tion, when they were aéjb/utidy; in pofléfiofz ofa good one 1 And the sprecife time that you fix for the happy perlod of this good Con/fituz'z'on was the day the States met in feparate Orders. You know, Sir, that at tbaz' tzmeg the Bailile exified, the praétice 'of Arbltrary lmprifonment exifi'ed, ' no 'haéeastcorpuff was then efiablifhed, no Trial by'jui'y was then known in 5 that Country, not had. It even been moved for' in the National'
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