The Letters of Julius

Law (taking the term in its most generic acceptation) is reason in a tangible shape. Were all law, written or traditional, proscribed to-morrow, it might, in a measure, be non-operative---it could not be non-existent. I make this remark for the benefit of the rising generation. I wish to see the innate principles of truth and reason consulted; and the philosophy of life gleaned from the joint stores of the past and the passing hour. Were a miracle to erase all our records, and consign to oblivion all our traditions, would not law be re-written, and would it not be, in the main, the law that had been? I trust, then, there is no need of a miracle to induce some, at least, amongst us, to resist any unjust bias, and instinctively and intuitively, with as little regard to party or prejudice as possible, to seek truth and keep it ;---to adapt and apply it to the purposes of life; and being, as far as themselves are concerned,

the givers, stand forth, as far as others

are interested, the guardians of law.

SEPT. 24th, 1821.

JULIUS.

CONTENTS.

LETTER I.

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To the Degenerate Whigs, on their crooked

policy and mean temporising, in the outset

of the Radical contest

LETTER II.

To the same-substantiating the charge of their

having countenanced revolutionary doings.

They are advised of the intentions of their

Radical accomplices towards them; which

are exemplified in an analysis of the reasons

for putting into their mouths the call for

Parliamentary investigation into the events at

Manchester on the 16th of August

LETTER III.

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To the same, on their political inconsistency and
indiscriminate opposition; their works of su-
pererogation in advocating the inquiry; the

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radicals intrigue to render this advocacy non-

effective; their reasons, and the miscalcula-

tions on which they are founded••••••••••

LETTER IV.

To the same exposing their miserable advocacy

of the forbidden inquiry, and establishing the

validity of the evidence before Parliament,

which is adduced to prove the necessity of

bringing the letter of the law explicitly up to

the spirit

LETTER V.

To the same on the monstrous absurdities and

constitutional dangers this extraordinary In-

quiry would give birth to

LETTER VI.

To the Editor of the Morning Post—on the rea-

sons the Loyal have to be undismayed; their

comparative justness and force, vigilance and,

resolution, however, must by no means be

dispensed with

LETTER VII.

To the Editor of the Old Times-on his unfa-
thomable degeneracy; his incurable propen-
sity to LYING; the clumsiness which charac-
terises his indulgence of his ruling penchant ;

respectable opposition neither indiscriminate,

nor of a false and froward tongue.-His

exclusive readers never can know THE TRUTH.

Speculation in the Manchester outcry pos-

sesses him with canine madness: his super-

latively stupid attacks on the new measures;

his murdering Tacitus; his expulsion from