discussing a Position relative to a Fundamental Right of the Constitution, contained in his Lordship’s Thoughts on the Letter of Edmund Burke, Esq.” 8vo. 1777. – ”The People’s Barrier against undue Influence and Corruption,” 8vo. 1780. – “Give us our Rights,” (a letter to the electors of Middlesex), 8vo. 1782. – “Internal Evidence; or an Inquiry how far Truth and the Christian Religion have been consulted by the Author of ‘Thoughts on a Parliamentary Reform[1],’” 8vo. 1784. – “Letter to the Duke of Newcastle, respecting his Conduct in the Disposal of Commissions in the Nottingham Militia,” 8vo. 1792 – “Letter to a Friend at Boston, and to all other Commoners who have associated in support of the Constitution,” 8vo. 1793. – “The Commonwealth in Danger; with an Introduction containing Remarks on some late Writings of Arthur Young,” 8vo. 1795. – “A Letter to the High Sheriff of the County of Lincoln, respecting the Laws of Lord Grenville and Mr. Pitt, for altering the Criminal Law of England respecting Treason and Sedition,” 8vo, 1795. – “The Constitutional Defence of England, Internal and External,” 8vo. 1796. – “An Appeal on the Subject of the English Constitution,” 8vo. 1797; enlarged and reprinted in 1799. – “A Letter to the Electors of Nottingham,” 8vo. 1803. – “England’s AEgis; or the Military Energies of the Empire,” 2 vols. 12mo. 1803-6. – “The State of the Nation, in a Series of Letters to the Duke of Bedford,” 8vo. 1805. – “Reasons for Reformation,” 8vo. 1809. – “The Comparison; in which Mock Reform, Half Reform, and Constitutional Reform, are considered,” 8vo. 1810. – He was also the author of several papers in “Young’s Annals of Agriculture.”
The subject of the foregoing sketch married, in 1780, the eldest daughter of Samuel Dashwood, of Wells, co. Lincoln, Esq.
CHARLES BENNETT, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant in 1797; and served under Captain (now Sir Charles) Tyler, in the Tonnant 80, at the memorable battle of Trafalgar; towards the close of which he boarded and took possession of the French 74 Algesiras. On the evening of the following day, the perilous situation of that ship compelled him to liberate his prisoners, by whom he was carried into Cadiz, with about fifty of the Tonnant’s crew, the whole of whom, however, were allowed to return to the
- ↑ Soame Jenyns.
