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    dogged resistance to the Ballot . We show you the progress of faction—we point to the daily evidences that the engine of Reform is enfeebled for want of a fresh appliance , which awaits your sanction , —and that , without it , it can no longer effect its legitimate purpose . Your answer is , that we must wait till the power

    of opinion , now demonstrably enchained by corruption , shall emancipate us from corruption ; and , satisfied with the logic of its vindication , the Ministry who gave us the Reform Bill , with its Tail of three-score Whigs , betook themselves to the aid of 200 'tbries in a crusade against its friends . My Lord , you should ,

    at least , have spared yourselves the reproach of " a juxta-position so ignominious and suicidal / ' If the Cabinet had not the courage tp > protect itself—the wisdom to fortify its own . power , or the justice to shield the zeal of its supporters—it should , at least , have eschewed the stigma of fraternity with its foes .

    Was it statesmanlike—was it commonly prudent—was it decent , to exhibit to the people a coalition with the Tories in refusing to your friends the protection they ask whilst battling for your interest against the very foes with whom you ally yourselves to deny it ? The promptness and the magnitude of the assistance

    they rendered you is alone a sufficient proof of the utility of the Ballot to Reform . Do you imagine that your enemies aid you through affection ? Do you really think that they , whose sole aim is your destruction , would minister to any course of yours which they were not well assured was suicidal ?

    The country appreciates , and I trust , my Lord , you have not failed to acknowledge , with becoming gratitude , the generous benevolence with which the gentlemen who occupy various gradations between Sir R . Peel and Mr Peter Borthwick , enabled you to reject protection against their own attacks upon you . I hope you have done them justice for the candour with which they

    applauded the magnanimous contempt of the Secretary at War for a shield which they are quite of opinion it would be cowardly in you to adopt against themselves while they wield every conceivable weapon of offence against you . My Lord , this alliance with your adversaries has been jthe reigning bane of your policy . Believe me , you have not a real friend in the country who does not unfeignedly deplore the fatality of this ominous conjunction ; nor do your enemies

    dissemble the delight with which they extend to you the mantle tif their perilous protection . Hercules ( who was stronger than your Government ) received a similar favour . You best kndw whether you have a Dejanira in the Cabinet ; but I think I C ( Wild point out Nesstis in the Opposition . It is this infatuation wmoh inspirits the adversaries , In the exact proportion in Which it disgusts and divides the friends , of your Government . ttete are , my Lord , at thfa hour < tf peril and tribulation , but

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 1, 1837, page 262, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1831/page/7/