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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: Saville, however, who had been great sufferers, refused to accept
of any compensation whatever.
The House of Commons, sitting on Tuesday with locked and guarded
doors, had passed a resolution to the effect that, as soon as the
tumults subsided, it would immediately proceed to consider the
petitions presented from many of his Majesty's Protestant subjects,
and would take the same into its serious consideration. While this
question was under debate, Mr Herbert, one of the members present,
indignantly rose and called upon the House to observe that Lord
George Gordon was then sitting under the gallery with the blue
cockade, the signal of rebellion, in his hat. He was not only
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