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ment; and, in some degree, checked the pro 

 gress of the dealers in blood. I had an inter 

 view with Lord Holland, and told him, that, if 

 he would pledge himself to cause the secret- 

 service money to be kept in London, 1 would 

 pledge myself for the keeping of the peace in 

 Lancashire. In short, it was necessary, in order 

 to support the tyranny of the seat-sellers, that 

 terror should prevail in the populous districts. 

 Blood was wanted to flow; and money was 

 given to spies to tempt men into what the new 

 law had made crimes. 



858. From this time I resolved not to leave 

 my children in such a state of things, unless 1 

 should be taken off very suddenly. I saw no 

 hope of obtaining a Reform of the Parliament, 

 without which it was clear to me, that the people 

 of England must continue to work solely for the 

 benefit of the great insolent families, whom I 

 hated for their injustice and rapacity, and despis 

 ed for their meanness and ignorance. I saw, in 

 them, a mass of debauched and worthless beings, 

 having at their command an army to compel the 

 oeople to surrender to them the fruits of their 

 industry; and, in addition, a body existing un 

 der the garb of religion, almost as despicable in 

 point of character, and still more malignant. 



85). I could not have died in peace, leaving 

 my children the slaves of such a set of beings; 



