THE DETECTOR DETECTED, OR, THE DANGER TO WHICH OUR CONSTITUTION NOW LIES EXPOSED, SET IN A TRUE AND MANIFEST LIGHT
1743 · London
by [Pulteney, William?]
London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1743. 62, [2 blanks] pp. A clean text, discrete institutional rubberstamp and withdrawal on blank verso of title page. Bound in modern quarter morocco, with title stamped in gilt on spine, and brown cloth. Very Good.
The anonymous author rebuts 'Faction Detected,' a pamphlet written by Lord Egmont. He calls Egmont's work "an elaborate piece of nonsense" because it claims "that our Constitution is in no Danger."
Egmont is wrong: "lawless power and arbitrary rule", the Crown's unlimited power of patronage, its misuse of excessive revenue from taxation, and "the Prevalence of Bribery and Corruption" threaten the British system of dividing power among the Crown, Lords, and People. "If the absolute and arbitrary Power the Crown now has over almost all the Posts and Employments in the publick Service is not carefully limited and regulated, we shall, we must be Slaves."
ESTC T146392. (Inventory #: 23810)
The anonymous author rebuts 'Faction Detected,' a pamphlet written by Lord Egmont. He calls Egmont's work "an elaborate piece of nonsense" because it claims "that our Constitution is in no Danger."
Egmont is wrong: "lawless power and arbitrary rule", the Crown's unlimited power of patronage, its misuse of excessive revenue from taxation, and "the Prevalence of Bribery and Corruption" threaten the British system of dividing power among the Crown, Lords, and People. "If the absolute and arbitrary Power the Crown now has over almost all the Posts and Employments in the publick Service is not carefully limited and regulated, we shall, we must be Slaves."
ESTC T146392. (Inventory #: 23810)