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lost all his money. He'd been so broke he'd had to use his patron 's name as a guarantor to invest.
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Perhaps this & his own losses (plus his Old Whig principles) led to call for the "contrivers...of the villanous South-Sea scheme" to be treated as those who killed their fathers in Ancient Rome: "tied in like manner in sacks, and thrown into the Thames.”
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www.dib.ieToland, John | Dictionary of Irish Biography
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Molesworth (along with other Irish members at Westminster such as and ) took a lead in pursuing those responsible for the South Sea Bubble fraud.

Trenchard went further, writing "Cato's Letters" with , which called for "liberty, accountability, and checks upon the wealthy interests who manipulated government for their own ends." These were very influential in America.

mtsu.edu/first-amendment/artic

www.mtsu.eduCato's LettersThe First Amendment drew language from Cato's Letters, which endorsed free speech and said that people must be able to "petition for redress" their government.
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Molesworth was credited with involvement writing some of "Cato's Letters" but this was denied by Gordon.

dib.ie/biography/molesworth-ro

It's interesting that the event that ruined Toland and enraged Molesworth resulted in a work that combined "Machiavelli’s republicanism, John Locke’s liberalism, and Algernon Sidney’s anti-authoritarian populism".

They lost money but the republican project they'd both worked for was moved forward.

www.dib.ieMolesworth, Robert | Dictionary of Irish Biography
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