A letter from a Member of Parliament for a borough in the West, to a noble Lord in his neighbourhood there, concerning the Excise-Bill, and the manner and causes of losing it / [M. M].

  • M. M.
Date:
1733
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Credit: A letter from a Member of Parliament for a borough in the West, to a noble Lord in his neighbourhood there, concerning the Excise-Bill, and the manner and causes of losing it / [M. M]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    only true Churchmen \ tho' if their Words, their avowed Principles, their public Wri¬ tings and Actions had any Meaning, their evident Aim was Slavery and the Pretender. But though every thinking Man faw this, the Multitude faw it not; and being be¬ witched with the Cry of the Churchy ap¬ proved and promoted all the Mifchief and Violence committed under that pious Cloak. ^ / 'I, my Lord, have feen another venerable Word ftrangely miftaken and abufed in a late Inftance here, I mean the Word Liberty, which in my humble Opinion has been more than taken in vain; and the Sound of it ma- nifeftly perverted to banifli the Subjlance; as by that Sound public Tumults and falfe Terrors have been raifed againft that great . Bulwark of Liberty, the Freedom and Inde¬ pendency of (parliament. I am fo full of this ill-boding Event, and fo much affe&ed by it, as what I apprehend to be entirely fubverfive of all Liberty, that I cannot help troubling your Lordfhip with a few Obfervations about it. Your Lord- fhip came into public Life poffefled with all the rational Notions of Liberty; and tho* you have for many Years retired from at¬ tending in Parliament, you have the Inte- reft
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