History Repeating Itself

Lord Muo:itïl;iy, in iri i-sav d YVilliain Pitt suytt of Englmul : "The hubfa.i corpus net ivas suspended. Public niuüiiiigs wuro put mider severo rustrumt The yovuruiüeut obtuined i'roiu Parlia ment power tu sand out of lliu eoiinivy alieus who viere sii."ec!(Hl of evil di-Krgu; aod thut power A nu: sñccl lo lio dle.- Wniei's vvhi' pritjMMHMled doctrines miverse vo iiitifmt-ohy weru jironcribed Hi)d punished wsilmtit awruy. Il wus bardly cafo tor :i ropnb iciin Bi :ivow l,s politica] LTued ov' his bot'i stiiul; at :i eliophoue. Tha old liwrt of ricothuid ayainst Heëoiwn, law.s v hiuh huiu cuii sidered by tóngiihrnft n burburous, and whicb i ?tio;'i.'rtsion ok governmuiita h;td suffered to rust, u:c iurbislied up and isharptíiíod aimw. Men of eullivuted rmidn and polisbud intin noi'8 were, for oöeiices vvliich at Westminster wouid have beun trtmted uh tuero midemeanorH, ent to hord wi;h felona at Botany Bay. This fevonty was at the linie l."ud!v ipplaiulei] by itlrtrmwts vvl-.nm feur had made ciucl, but will be seen in u very ditJeix-in light by postcrity."