7272. REPRESENTATION, Deprivation of.—
George III. in execution of the trust confided to him, has, within his own day,
loaded the inhabitants of Great Britain with
debts equal to the whole fee-simple value of
their island, and, under pretext of governing
it, has alienated its whole soil to creditors
who could lend money to be lavished on
priests, pensions, plunder and perpetual war.
This would not have been so, had the people
retained organized means of acting on their
agents. In this example, then, let us read a
lesson for ourselves, and not “go and do
likewise”.—
To Samuel Kerchival. Washington ed. vii, 36.
Ford ed., x, 45.
(M.
1816)
See Debt, Oppressive English.
