Here and There in London. James Ewing Ritchie

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СКАЧАТЬ the House was convulsed with laughter. Happily, this state of things no longer exists, and, in the language of Mr. Macaulay, it is now universally felt “that the gallery in which the reporters sit, has become a fourth estate of the realm.” The publication of the debates, which seemed to the most liberal statesmen full of danger to the great safeguards of public liberty, is now regarded by many persons as a safeguard tantamount, and more than tantamount, to all the rest put together. “Give me,” said Sheridan, whilst fighting the battle of the reporters on the floor of the House – “give me but the liberties of the press, and I will give to the minister a venal House of Peers – I will give him a corrupt and servile House of Commons – I will give him the whole host of ministerial influence – I will give him all the power that place can confer upon him to purchase up submission and overawe resistance – and yet, armed with the liberties of the press, I will go forth to meet him undismayed; I will attack the mighty fabric he has raised with that mightier engine. I will shake down from its height corruption, and bury it beneath the ruins of the abuses it was meant to shelter.”

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