Lectures Addressed Chiefly to the Working Classes volume 3
Lectures Addressed Chiefly to the Working Classes volume 3
W J William Johnson Fox
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One passage which I read from Coningsby tells us of the Pitt system. Thev eulogise that statesman's commercial liberality, Iris desire to free the Catholic from the yoke of Puritanism, and his sympathy witli the extension of political rights. It is a strange sort of regard for the name and memory of Pitt which revives topics like these. Yes, it is true that Pitt was in his early life an advocate for the extension of the franchise: — from the cause of reform it is notorious that he apostatised, ...and persecuted those who had adopted his own opinions, seek- ing even to take tin 1 lives of men who did nothing more than reassert his own solemnly declared principles. As to commercial liberality, why he understood not the very ele- ments of political economy, and seldom or never inter- meddled with trading interests (except, indeed, in his French Treaty of 17S(>), but by his blundering lie plunged the country deeper and deeper into a false system. With re- 166 LECTURE XI. spect to striking off the yoke from the Catholics of Ireland, if he promised them emancipation, lie never acquitted him- self of the obligation.
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