It is nearly fourteen years ago, in the popular frenzy of a
mean and selfish revolution which neither emancipated the
Crown nor the People, that I first took the occasion to
intimate and then to develope to the first assembly of my
countrymen that I ever had the honour to address, these
convictions. They have been misunderstood as is ever for a
season the fate of Truth, and they have obtained for their
promulgator much misrepresentation as must ever be the lot of
those who will not follow the beaten track of a fallacious
custom. But Time that brings all things has brought also to
the mind of England some suspicion that the idols they have so
long worshipped and the oracles that have so long deluded them
are not the true ones. There is a whisper rising in this
country that Loyalty is not a phrase. Faith not a delusion,
and Popular Liberty something more diffusive and substantial
than the profane exercise of the sacred rights of sovereignty
by political classes.
That we may live to see England once more possess a free
Monarchy and a privileged and prosperous People, is my prayer;
that these great consequences can only be brought about by the
enemy and devotion of our Youth is my persuasion.
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