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be invited to its contemplation . Each and all may rise therefrom wiser and better . There is no occasion to attempt a connected narrative . Those who have been so inattentive as to need a history of the events which agitated the nation from the 7 th to the 19 th of last month will scarcely profit by our commentary . There can be
very few such amongst our readers . The defeat of ministers m the House of Peers , on Lord Lyndhurst ' s motion for postponing the consideration of the first clause of the Reform Bill ; the refusal of the King to create peers ; the resignation of ministers ; the reiterated attempts of the Duke of Wellington to form an administration ; the public meetings which were immediately held throughout the country ; the manly stand made by the majority of the
House of Commons ; the rush of reinforcements , by thousands daily , to join the multitudes who had previously formed themselves into Political Unions ; the language held , both in these meetings and by the press , altogether unexampled for its plainness and its boldness ; the commencing symptoms of a commercial panic ; of a run on the Bank ; of the non-payment , in money , of direct taxes , and
of ulterior measures of a stronger description , which not merely a few desperate men , but a large portion of the intelligent , respectable , and influential , had begun to contemplate ; the suspension of hostile feeling , in consequence of the royal message to Earl Grey , on the 15 th ; the revival of that feeling , with aggravated bitterness , on finding that it had been attempted to recall ministers to power fettered with conditions fatal to the Bill , and therefore treasonable
to the people ; and the burst of delight which hailed the announcement that the court had surrendered at discretion to the Whigs , and secured to them ample powers to pass the Bill and carry on the government : —these are events of which contemporaries can require no record , no recapitulation ; the bare enumeration of them is enough , and will serve as a sufficient basis , with such amplification of them as each reader ' s recollection will readily supply , for the remarks to which we would now request
attention A new power has been developed in the people , the extent of which it is impossible to calculate ; but which is evidently of the most formidable description . This power is the effect of public opinion on the monetary system of the country , which may be carried to such a degree as to paralyze government , loosen the bonds of
society , and necessitate a new order of things . No law is broken , no violence is committed , but all the operations both of government and commerce are brought to a stand . Had the Wellington administration been formed , much of that portion of the public revenue which consists in direct taxation , would have only consisted of goods , which there would have been a general combination of the people not to buy , and even of the brokers not to sell . Nor would thfe
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The Recent Political Crisis . 393
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1832, page 393, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1814/page/33/
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