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Excerpt from The Speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox in the House of Commons
We are told by the abettors of this motion, that jealousies, murmurs, and discontents increase and multiply throughout the nation; that the people are under terrible apprehensions that the law is perverted; that juries are deprived of their constitutional powers that the courts of justice are not sound and untainted in a word, that the Judges have, like a dozen716 of monstrous Patagonian giants, either swallowed, or are going to swallow up, both law and gospel. And how do they prove the truth of these allegations? The manner, Sir, is pleasant enough. They refer us to their own libellous remonstrances, and to those infamous lampoons and satires which they have taken care to write and circulate. They modestly substitute themselves in the place of the nation, and call their own complaints and grievances the complaints and grievances of England. Their meaning is plain enough, and we understand perfectly how all their grievances might be redressed.
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