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Excerpt from Speech of Sir Charles Wetherell, at the Bar of the House of Lords: Against the Iniquitous Corporation Bill, on Thursday, 30th, and Friday, 31st July, 1835
There were some whose views were too exalted to condescend to such a vulgar inquiry; their principles were too much sub limized, their genius mounted too high, their taste was too ex quisite, they could not deal with corporeal ideas, they looked to man, not as he was, but as he was not. If they did look to man as he was, they would know what he (sir C. Wetherell) would' now state to their lordships, that under the Operation of this bill. In the to be exploded corporations there were 4000 of those men, 40 at Oxford, 40 at Bristol, 40 at Worcester, &c., to be turned' loose and driven from their places of rank, dignity, and station, by the unheard-of, persecuting, execrable whipping and scourging and tyranny of this bill; victims of the taunt and ridicule and scorn of the new democratically-elected council and constituent body, who were to supplant them in official station and dignity.
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