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    with a niggard hand the debt of gratitude which it owes him for the prospects of a cause which he alone could have assured of speedy success . He has his reward , and long may he such the wreath he has won . No throne can be so firm and glorious as that round which reformers rally .

    A Whig Administration is another rara avis ^ a black swan of the year thirty-one . We scarcely yet know how to speak , or what to think , of the present Ministry . Their general policy , foreign and domestic , cannot be fully developed until after the settlement of the Reform question . Their merits have hitherto been estimated chiefly with reference to that single measure . To carry the Bill has been , and properly , regarded as the end

    and aim of their official existence . And even on that point , the time is not yet come for affixing the final seal to their character and deserts . Whether the course which they have chosen be the best , must be determined by the event . They called for public confidence , and the satisfaction occasioned by the-efficiency of the reform which they proposed led the nation to exercise the confidence which they required . With very few

    and unimportant exceptions , everything has been done which could be done to strengthen their hands ; everything abstained from which could embarrass their proceedings . They have courted , and obtained , an awful trust;—they are responsible for the success of the Bill . Nothing less can redeem their pledges to the nation ; nor even that , unless it shall appear to be a success so inevitable as that they could reckon upon it from

    the first , and so complete as to compensate for all the evils of delay , the continued agitation of the country , and the sta g nation of trade caused by it ; evils which , to all appearance , might have been avoided by prompt recourse to the decisive step of creating new peers at the time of the Coronation . The test may be thought a severe one , but it is their own choice . They have told us that the Bill shall be passed , and we have taken them at their word . Our confidence lasts till it shall be

    gloriously vindicated , or its abuse can be demonstrated . It is an indication of the moral sense of the people that this confidence mainly rests on the known personal qualities of Lords Grey and Althorp . Their high honour , pure integrity , and strict principle have been cheerfully accepted as a g uarantee for the whole Cabinet . Lord Palmerston and the Grants are regarded

    as reformers ex officio . The Duke of Richmond had only earned the reputation of a well meaning Tory . And Lord Brougham has always rather commanded admiration than attracted confidence . Lord Holland should be added , perhaps ; that warm-hearted representative of the warmest-hearted man that ever was condemned to lead a party . But his convictions of the necessity and utility of Parliamentary reform cannot be of very long standing ; nor have his pledges ( from the nature of

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    State and Prospects ofiht Counirtf . 5

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1832, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1804/page/5/