Part III.] MoRnis Birkbeck, fiso, S4S 



aggregate of individual injury that makes up national 

 injury : it is the aggregate of individual resentment that 

 makes up national resentment. National resentment is 

 absolutely necessary to the producing of redress for 

 oppression ; and, therefore, to say that individual resent- 

 ment is wrong, is to say, that there ought to be no 

 redress for oppression : it is, in short, to pass a sen- 

 tence of never-ending sla^ ery on all mankind. Some 

 Local Militiamen ; young fellows who had been com- 

 pelted to become soldiers, and who l:ad no knowledge 

 of military discipline; who had, by the Act of Parlia- 

 ment, been promised ar/itinea each before they marched; 

 who had refused to march because the gxeinea had not 

 been wholly paid them; some of these young men, these 

 mere boys, had, for this mutiny, as it was called, been 

 foriged at Ely in Cambridgeshire, under a guard of 

 German baxjonets and sabres. At this I expressed mif 

 indir/nation in the strongest terms; and, for doing this, 

 I was put for tico years into a gaol along with men con- 

 victed of nnnaturul crimes, robbery, and under charge 

 of murder, and where Astlet was, who was under sen- 

 tence of death. To this was added a fine of a thousand 

 jiouuds sterling ; and, when the two years should ex- 

 pire, bunds for the peucz and good behaviour for eofejt 

 years! The seven years are not yet expired. I will 

 endeavour to be of " <70orf behaviour" for the short 

 space that is to come ; and, I am sure, I have behaved 

 well for the past ; for never were seven years of such 

 efficient exertion seen in the life of any individual. 



647. The tyrants are hard pushed no^y. The Bank 

 Notes are their only ground to stand on ; and that ground 

 tcillbe moved from under them in a little time. Strange 

 changes since you left England, short as the time has 

 been ! I am iully of opinion, that my /o«j- years which 

 I gave the systena at my coming away, will see the end 

 of it. There can be no more war carried on by them. 

 I see they have had Baring, of Loan-notoriety at the 

 Holy Alliance-Congress. He has been stipulating for 

 a supply of paper-money. They should have got ray 

 consent to let the paper-money remain ; for, lean destroy 

 it whenever J please. All sorts of projects are on foot. 



