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services of that gentleman , as Chancellor of the Exchequer , might as well have beeu dispensed with by him , as by the Duke of Wellington . There could have been no difficulty about finding a successor not less able than the present occupant of that situation . Nor has his Lordship shewn why he might not have discovered and applied the means ,
whatever they be , which have since induced these fierce antagonists to pull together harmoniously . Of Lord Goderich ' s honesty and honour there are the strongest indications . He has not played false with the late Government . Why then , again , was it dissolved ? Must the answer be , " Le Roi le veut" ? And is that a constitutional answer ? At any
rate the Whig Liberals wiJl take care whom they trust again . The Tory Liberals will not , it seems ; at least those of them who are still in office ; for they have trusted , and that most implicitly , the Duke of Wellington . He declares himself a party to no pledges ; fettered by iio conditions or stipulations ; he has
guaranteed nothing , but that if they speak their minds , what they say shall be considered . They have enlisted under him , and if their cry be " advance , " he may add , " three steps backwards . " So that if any good thing come out of the present Administration , we shall have to thank his Grace , and not Lord Dudley or Mr . Huskisson .
Feb . 16 . The Finance Committee is appointed , and Mr . Huskisson is still silent . Will he suffer judgment to go by default ? There is a heavy presumption against him . The late Administration was broken up because he would not act with Mr . Herries , and now he does act with Mr . Herries . The gross inconsistency of this conduct matters little , at least to the public ; but what does matter to the public is , that they have lost , by f
Mr . Huskissons inconsistency , a wise and liberal government , and come under the domination of a military , ignorant , bigoted and intolerant Administration . Until he can shew to the contrary , this change , this degrading and disastrous change , must be laid at his door , ft will go far towards balancing his account with the country , large , as undoubtedly our obligations are to him , on the score of commercial policy .
And even if the late changes should appear to have been completely independent of Mr . Huskisson , his place should still be amongst those who supported the political views , foreign and domestic , of Mr . Canning . His accepting office on condition of being allowed to realize
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those views in his own particular dc * partment , while the Government , as a whole , assumed a very different tone and spirit , would have been a very undignified procedure , and of very questionable utility . But this defence , a poor and paltry one at best , has been kicked from under him , and crushed to atoms by the heavy foot of our military Premier .
Feb . 19 . Lucus a non lucendo , expla-t nations from ex plaining nothing , is the description most applicable to the long speeches of last night by the United Irreconcileables of the late and present Cabinet . In spite of Collins , Hartley , Priestley , and Jonathan Edwards , is there really such a thing as Philosophical Free Will ? A desire to dissolve the late
Cabinet , which would be an obvious and intelligible motive to the conduct recently pursued , being solemnly disclaimed , by or for every body , the Necessarian is put to a sad nonplus . He may find pretexts iu abundance , but no motives . The nomination of Lord Althorp to the Chair of the Finance Committee is put completely out of the question , inasmuch as it clearly appears that he uever was so nominated , and that nothing more passed
upon the subject than a little talk , which pledged nobody to any thing . Mr . Herries , therefore , was self-determined to resign . As this resolution removed every obstacle to Mr . Huskisson ' s avowed plans and wishes , he must have been self-determined to resign also . Nor can auy more philosophical account be given of Lord Goderich's troubling the King with his troubles , or of his Majesty ' s suspending at once all the members of a Cabinet to which he had resolved to be
fitithful . As this new light upon a much controverted subject seems the only good to be derived from what has passed , let us make much of it . As Mr . Huskisson is the chief , if not the sole support , of whatever of public confidence and hope attaches t ; o the present Ministry , it is sad to see him , after all , cutting but a sorry figure . His personal feelings , and acknowledged declarations , ought to have made a strong
case of public expediency needful before he could thiuk of joining the enemies of Mr . Canning ' s person and policy . Instead " of this he joins them to the public detriment ; to the annihilation of Mr . Canning ' s party ; and to the restoring and , consolidating of the power of that fac-, tiou , whose short sighted tllibcrfeUty has ' loug been the great obstacle to realizing the liberal views of himself and his late friend . He joins them , uot with conditions or stipulations , us was at first so
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Public Affairs 215
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1828, page 215, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2558/page/71/
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