This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1807 Excerpt: ...district; and if he had not issued the order, I do not scruple to say, that he would have betrayed his trust. In giving the order, he is supported by an address nearly unanimous of both houses of parliament, and I might rest his justification on that address; but as the noble lord has roundly asserted in another place, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1807 Excerpt: ...district; and if he had not issued the order, I do not scruple to say, that he would have betrayed his trust. In giving the order, he is supported by an address nearly unanimous of both houses of parliament, and I might rest his justification on that address; but as the noble lord has roundly asserted in another place, that the order issued by lord Camden for disarming the northern rebels is given up to be illegal, I now meet him on the point, and am ready to maintain that the order was, not only strictly legal under the circumstances in which it was issued, but that lord Camden, if he had withheld it, would have been deeply responsible for the mischiefs which must have arisen from his omission. The constitution of these kingdoms must be strangely defective indeed if it has not in it a principle of self-preservation. I very well know that it has no such defect, and therefore, when the ordinary course of the municipal law, and the utmost exertions of civil magistrates prove ineffectual for the protection of the constitution, and for the safety and protection of his majesty's peaceable and loyal subjects, it is the bounden duty of the executive government to call in the aid of the military power, for the suppression of treason and rebellion, and for the safety and maintenance of the constk tution. It was upon this principle that an order was issued in 1779, to the military force of England to act, when the city of London was attacked by a fanatical banditti, who had well nigh made themselves masters of it. That order probably saved the British empire; and I have no doubt that the order issued here for disarming the northern rebels, was essential for the salvation of the kingdom of Ireland. The minister who issued such an order, is deeply responsible for the a...
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Good. No Jacket. Volume 2 only. 1808. Early American edition. Hardcover, full calf, leather title label. 449 pp. Engraved frontis. Good. Sound binding. Staining throughout, but readable.
