"  Mr.  Sheridan,  before  he  had  done,  could  not  help
strongly  marking  a  farther  difference  with  Mr.  Burke
with  respect  to  our  own  Revolution  of  1688.  He  had
never  been  accustomed  to  consider  that  transaction  as
merely  the  removal  of  one  man,  and  the  substitution  of
another,  but  as  .the  glorious  sera  that  gave  real  and  effi-
cient freedom  to  this  country,  and  established,  on  a  per-
manent basis,  those  sacred  principles  of  government,  and
reverence  for  the  rights  of  men,  which  he,  for  one,  could
not  value  here,  without  wishing  to  see  them  diffused
throughout  the  world."

Mr.  Burke  answered,  "  that  he  most  sincerely  lament-
ed over  the  inevitable  necessity  of  now  publicly  declaring


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