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Huntington Library, RB 131334, The Life, Letters and Literary Remains of Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton by His Son with Portraits and Illustrations, 2 vols (London, 1883), II, between pp. 58–59. ALS; 4p. . Not previously published.
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I find your packet, a month after its date, on my return from a long
tour in Scotland, where I have been <seeing> the great works execu already
executed, or in progress, for the improvement of that country, – piers, roads,
bridges & the Caledonian Canal.
If I were disposed to produce an article upon the state of the
country, there would not be time for it, – because you must certainly enter upon that
subject in your next number, – before the meeting of Parliament,Bellum servile.x instead of during the danger! And even during that year the wrong use
was made of the power which they had obtained. Huntought to have been <was> the first man whom they ought to have seized, –
& after him the seditious writers.
We want new laws for the mob & for the press. Transportation for
life should be the punishment of sedition, any thing short of this is mere folly.
Mr Fox law of
libelset on fire <burnt>, – perhaps some large manufacturing town may be set
on fire; – more constables will be murdered,perhaps it is not unlikely that
the system of assassination may extend farther. And then because we will not impose a
few salutary restraints to prevent these evils, we must submit to more & greater
in the hope of xxxxx remedying them, – a suffering nation will
looks to despotism as the end of its miseries, as a suffering individual looks to
death.
Tomorrow I will return the paper upon Monachism.
It does not appear to me that any sneer is implied in the way in
which Rennel
After so long an absence from home, I have a keen appetite for my usual employments, – & plenty of work before me.