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    and Hi&h Gdmtnissibn Oaurt btoady followed , and wh « a Eltot left his home to attend his duties in the following sesSoiuite seems to have been aware that the struggle in Which hfe ifraSaoOUt to engaff g would t > 6 his last . He evidently anticipated his fate , and made over the whole of his property to trustees * for the use of hia family . It was his celebrated " remonstrance" which produced the abene of the second of March . It is abl y condensed by Mr Forster * from the parliamentary history and other sources .

    " Elliot concluded , as if by a forecast of the future , with Ihese itifetnor&JMe words : — ' I protest , as I am a gentletoan , if my fortimt be ttibr Again tQ meet in this honourable assembly , where I notv l&ctvt * I Will b&gin again ! ' . AdYahcing to tho Speaker , Sir John Eliot then produced his remonstrance , and desired that lie would read it . Thg Sftf&kfcf refitted . He presented it to the clerk at the table . The clerk also ft * - fttsed . With fearless determination Eliot now read the rettiotlfctfarice

    hittiself , and demanded of the Speaker , as a right , that he shduld put it to the vote . Again the Speaker refused . ' He was Commanded ottorvdse by the king . —p . 98 . The House was presently thrown into disorder , the Speaker attempted to quit the chair , but was held down , ai \ d Sir Jofyn Eliot loudly * expressed by his tongue what his paper contained /

    His resolutions were then put to the . vote , and answered b | r * . treniendous acclamations / The consequence was the immediate sttn ^ tftoriihg of Eliot before the Council , and on his refusal to gffv £ any account of ' words uttered in parliament ^ he % va « co tti - nilttfed tb prison . JHe sued in vain for his habeas corpus , and spurned tne offer of being admitted to bail , on condition that he would present a petition declaring he was sorry he had offended .

    He lived four years in the Tower , and then died of consumption , occasioned by the dampness and coldness of his dungeon . The whole account of his imprisonment is deeply interesting . Nothing cin be more noble and affecting than the extracts which liia biographer lias given us from Eliot ' s letters to \ m sofift * and to Htttnpden , under whose charge lie had left them . He was * hoVvever , obliged to observe great caution In his correspondence . He thus writes to Dentil Hollis : —

    " The corruption of this age , if no other danger might occur , Were ah excuse , even in business , for not writing . The sun , we see , bfegets div ^ rft ttitinsrers oh the earth when it has heat and violence ; tittie may do mbrt on papfer ; therefore the safest intercourse is by hartd ; in this way I hatfe inuch intelligence to give you , but you may divine it without prophesied' —1 > . 113 .

    Mr Forstfcr stakes , on the authority fcf a MS * letter , that the Wnolo county of Cornwall , where Eliot wris born , petitioned for Ms release . Towards the ehd of his imprisonment he Was p 6 rsfaftded to address the kihg himself , with the hop * of obtairtlng his fueedotn : —

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    456 EfnxneHi British Staiewien .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 466, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/6/