Autograph letter signed (Wm. C.”), to Mr Akerman, ranting against the Duke of Wellington’s attitude towards reform (“...If this be not sport, the Devil is in it! What! The Boroughmongers shot at by the ‘hero of Waterloo’, to whom they have given nearly a million of our money! One crime is generally punished by another crime. It would seem that God thinks it unjust to employ virtuous men in punishing villains: hang-men are the scum of the earth. So here is this hero, who was set up by the Bloody Boroughmongers and parsons to keep us down, shooting at the cock of their cause! And (oh! God send!) If they bring out their mobs, he will bring out his ‘fine fellows’, whom ‘the ludies’ [Luddites] of Huddersfield feasted, when they were shooting at the Reformers in 1817!...”) and telling him he has a “damnable cold”, 2 pages, 8vo, integral address, recipient’s endorsement, second leaf partly adhering to album leaf, trace of seal, small tear, Kensington, 29 March 1829
Autograph letter signed (Wm. C.”), to Mr Akerman, ranting against the Duke of Wellington’s attitude towards reform (“...If this be not sport, the Devil is in it! What! The Boroughmongers shot at by the ‘hero of Waterloo’, to whom they have given nearly a million of our money! One crime is generally punished by another crime. It would seem that God thinks it unjust to employ virtuous men in punishing villains: hang-men are the scum of the earth. So here is this hero, who was set up by the Bloody Boroughmongers and parsons to keep us down, shooting at the cock of their cause! And (oh! God send!) If they bring out their mobs, he will bring out his ‘fine fellows’, whom ‘the ludies’ [Luddites] of Huddersfield feasted, when they were shooting at the Reformers in 1817!...”) and telling him he has a “damnable cold”, 2 pages, 8vo, integral address, recipient’s endorsement, second leaf partly adhering to album leaf, trace of seal, small tear, Kensington, 29 March 1829
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