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    The Ghost of Chatham; A Vision Dedicated to the House of Peers
    The Ghost of Chatham; A Vision Dedicated to the House of Peers
    The Ghost of Chatham; A Vision Dedicated to the House of Peers
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      The Ghost of Chatham; A Vision Dedicated to the House of Peers - Archive Classics

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      Title: The Ghost of Chatham; A Vision

      Dedicated to the House of Peers

      Author: Anonymous

      Release Date: March 13, 2008 [EBook #24825]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GHOST OF CHATHAM; A VISION ***

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      THE

      GHOST OF CHATHAM;

      A VISION.

      DEDICATED TO THE HOUSE OF PEERS.

      Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. A SPIRIT passed before my face.

      Job.

      LONDON:

      PRINTED FOR WILLIAM HONE,

      45, LUDGATE HILL.

      1821.

      Sixpence.

      J. M‘Creery, Tooks Court,

      Chancery Lane, London.

      PREFACE.

      The following lines were written under the powerful impulse of feelings which appear to have been almost consentaneous with those of the whole British people. The national spirit has been rouzed against this cruel and unconstitutional attack upon the Queen, with pervasive ardour, which forcibly recalls the language of the Augustan poet:—

      "Spiritus intus alit, totamque infusa per ARTUS,

      Mens agitat MOLEM, et magno se corpore miscet."

      This irresistible movement has been one of LOYALTY, not of FACTION; of love and not of enmity towards the constitution. It is not disputed that factious men exist, who are ready to swell public tumult whenever it arises: but it is mere drivelling, for ministers and their adherents, to talk of "radicalism" and democracy on this occasion. They must

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