Note D — Front matter

The public does not, perhaps, know also, that Oliver Cromwell in levelling times, abolished the charter, but that like the House of Peers, which was also abolished, it was obliged to be restored. The present attempt, is in fact, a small attack of liberty and equality, that epidemical disease that raged in England at the time of the great rebellion, and in France at the beginning of the revolution. Destruction or a strait waistcoat must be the consequence of such a disease.