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unmeasured . While to the opposition they showed a WbeaiSance and admitted of delays , such as no government before ever showed . or conceded , when , it had determined on carrying a measure , all , suggestions from the friends of that measure , either for , the improvement of its details , or the acceleration of its adop-r lion , were kept back and put down as a perilous interference . The threat of danger to ; the Bill , if its imperfections were
amended or its progress stimulated , was the silencing answer to every expostulation . ; Scarcely a change was . admitted but on . Tory suggestion . They did all in their power to diminish the force of the only argument which could really impress the minds of baroughmongers , viz . That the people were evidently , and at all risks , determined upon Reform . They endeavoured , as much as possible , to suppress those , popular demonstrations , an appeal
to which , constituted their most convincing logic . Their uniform language to the people was , / Trust everything to us , the Bill is safe , the . Bill shall ., bet carried . ' And yet what became of this boast in May last ? The Bill was virtually defeated ; the creation (of peers was refused ; and , so far as depended upon them , all was lost : we cannot add ,, save honour , ' unless by assuming , which
we dp . assume , that in some quarter or other , they had been Received ,. What power had they then to redeem the confidence which they had so proudly challenged ? If they had possessed the . royal authority for a creation of peers , do they stand acquitted Jor haying dallied with the opportunity till it was lost ? if they . never possessed jthat , authority , can . their language to the country he justified ? It avails not to tell us now , that the Bill was actually
earned without ; the long delay , the imminent . peril , both to the cause pf Reform and to ; the public peace ; the confused and excised state in which the country was kept , to the detriment of so in any interests ; and , the , jnode by which the submission of the peejrswas ultimately secured ;—these were surely greater evils than . any which could have been produced by an extension of the peerage ; an , extension which , after all , niust tg . ke place , if liberal
pnpciple . s are to prevail , and Whig government to be materially . distinguished fyom / Tory government . Much remains to be cleared , up of they history of tfyat time . But . it seems scarcely possible to avoid the inference , that the prospect of an efficient Reform was put to hazard from tenderness to aristocratical exclusiveness . , And * yhat saved both the ministry and the Bill at that fearful
. crisis ? , It is bad taste now to sneer at those who c thought of jjebejling * for the Bill . Not niore absurd is th ^ e affectation of Louis Philippe , in . treating the revolution of Jyly , 1830 , as simply a , . change of dypasty , than is that of the ministerial pamphleteer ,
, who qnly refers to the great national mpvement , in May last , as v tjie : baffling of a } Tbvy intrigue . If the Whigs would have that well understood ami received , which they have done for 0 } e , p ^ ftp le ,, Wt it fa shpwp ^ ft ^ they appreciate V whftt tjie peppjte d j ^ d
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1832, page 844, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1826/page/52/
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