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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

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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 know, if they consult the commonest sources of intelligence
open to them, that detestation of "THE BILL OF PAINS AND PENALTIES" is
rooted beyond all possibility of eradication in the breasts of an
overwhelming majority of good men, and faithful subjects.

At the moment when it was determined to send the following "VISION" to
the press, a burst of honest exultation has electrified the whole
kingdom.