A letter to Sir Robert Bernard, bart., Chairman of the Huntingdonshire Committee / by John Jebb.
- John Jebb
- Date:
- 1782
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A letter to Sir Robert Bernard, bart., Chairman of the Huntingdonshire Committee / by John Jebb. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![[ *9 ] ciliate Or, relying on thofe. energies^ which an open avowal of political truth would moft probably excite in the breafts of Englifhmen of every defcription, intrepidly affert it in the face of our country, regard- Iefs of oppofition from whatever quarter it may arife. This is a queftion which fu- turity may probably decide.—j~ My own fen- timents f It has, of late years, been too much the cuftom with men of every defcription, to exprefs an unfavourable opi- nion of the general difpofition of the Englifh people.— They have been repeatedly rcprcfented as Grangers to principle in virtue and religion, and totally degenerate with regard to the love of liberty and public fpirit:. [ can by no means aflent to a petition, which exhibits my fellow-citizens in fo unpleafing a point of view 1 rrm perfuaded, that the contrary is a fadh I am perfuaded, that there does not only exift fufficient virtue in this coun- try to preferve what is left of the forms of the conftitu- tion, but that there alfo remains fuch a portion of public fpirir, as, under proper diredtion, would reftore that con- flitution to its primaeval integrity and fplendor. When the brave and injured Keppel endured that me- morable conflidl, to which the arts of bafe detradfion had expofed him, with a firmnefs and compofure, which cOnfcious innocence could alone afford What were the fentiments, that occupied the minds of the attentive au- dience at that important hour ? Refpedi for injured me- rit, ftrong refentmenr, and anxious expedition, by turns maintained the intire pofleffion of their fouls. And at the moment of his acquittal, when furrounded by his fellow- citizens, he obtained a triumph, more truly honourable, more truly glorious, than England yet had witnefled, did not a fpirit, manly and exalted as his own, inform each Englifh bread ? Nor l '• • •](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22391447_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
