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Identifier: williamhonehisli00hackrich (find matches)
Title: William Hone; his life and times
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Hackwood, Frederick William, 1851-
Subjects: Hone, William, 1780-1842
Publisher: London (etc.) T. F. Unwin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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adethe allegation was too frightened to distinguish betweena stone and a bullet—he shrewdly opines that gentle-man would scarcely have thrust his hat into a brokencarriage window to keep out missiles from a firearm. Hones view of the matter was no doubt the correctone ; but that his journal dared to reflect public opinionand public feeling in the true light was vexatious tothe Court party. The sycophantic spirit of that partyis well exemplified by the form of solemn thanks-giving which was drawn up for the occasion, to beused througih the convenient medium of the StateChurch: — Almighty God, &c., who in compassion to a sinfulnation, hast defeated the designs of desperate men,and hast protected from the base assaults of a lawlessmultitude the Regent of the United Kingdom . . .shield him from . . . the madness of the people. The people who asked for the rights of citizenshipwere mad, and the Ruler who lived in luxury andlicentiousness was to move the grateful heart of thenation.
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FRANCIS PLACP:.Author of The Principle of Population. IMPENDING PROSECUTION 121 The second number of Hones Register, issuedFebruary 8th that year, contained Francis Places replyto Brougham, entitled Universal Suffrage and AnnualParliaments against Mr. Brougham and the Whigs.On the 17th of the month was published a specialfourth number of this little paper, with the title ofThe Register Extraordinary. It was produced in theattempt to get that statesman to desist from attackingthe Reformers, and contained the report of a speechdelivered by him at the City of London Tavern, inJune, 1814, at a time when he expected to becomethe Reform candidate for Westminster. This publica-tion had only the effect of exasperating Brougham,and making him attack the Reform party more fiercelythan ever. While petitions for parliamentary reform were pour-ing into the House of Commons, the Government wasconcerning itself only with the methods whereby theaspirations of the people could be most effectivelyquenc

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