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Excerpt from A Letter to the Viscount Folkestone: On the Unlawfulness of the Votes of Thanks to Mr. Wardle, and the Late Minority
With respect to Mr. Vvardlei know nothing, but of his public character. He has become of great public consideration by the unrelenting hostility with which he prosecuted his accusation of an illustrious member of the royal house. I cannot consider the means by which he ac quired the private and most confidential cor respondence of that victim of his accusation, the disclosure of which was so useful in main taining his case, as those which any one of very correct notions of honour or propriety would be anxious to avow. His very equivocal testimony, when examined before the house, was calculated to leave upon the mind no very certain conviction of his correctness of recollection or veracity: but whatever were his motives in the institution of his great la bour, whatever were the means of his success, or the ultimate object of his hopes, with his triumph over one, in whose honour every Bri tish subject is deeply interested, and whose trans gressions, not of the basest kind, are already visited with sufficient severity, a generous mind will not long sympathize, nor will he, who thinks that the rigour of punishment should be stayed when the ends of justice are attained, be now disposed to prolong it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
