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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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"The
authority,"
said
Sir
James,
"was
vested
in
the
responsible
Ministers
of
the
Crown,
and
was
intrusted
to
them
for
the
public
safety;
and
while
Parliament
placed
its
confidence
in
the
individual
exercising
such
a
power,
it
was
not
for
the
public
good
to
pry
or
inquire
into
the
particular
causes
which
called
for
the
exercise
thereof."[116]
He
hoped
that
the
House
would
confide
in
his
motives,
and
that
they
would
not
call
upon
him
to
answer
any
further
inquiries.
The
speech
of
the
Home
Secretary
added
fuel
to
the
flame.
Had
Sir
James
Graham
entered
more
fully
into
the
subject,
and
gone
into
the
real
state
of
the
law,
it
is
probable
that
the
subject
might
have
been
allowed
to
drop.
Not
only
was
the
slightest
explanation
of
the
principle
adopted
refused
by
the
Home
Secretary,
but
that
refusal
was
given
somewhat
cavalierly.
Public
attention
was
thus
roused;
the
most
exaggerated
rumours
got
abroad;
it
was
openly
stated
by
the
press
that
a
gigantic
system
of
espionage
had
been
established
at
St.
Martin's-le-Grand,
and
now
no
mere
general
assurances
of
its
unreality
could
dispel
the
talk
or
stop
newspaper
extravagances.
Sir
James
Graham
was
abused
most
unreasonably.
There
was
hardly
a
public
print
or
public
speaker
in
the
kingdom
that
did
not
heap
insults
or
expressions
of
disgust
on
his
name.
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