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Speaker , to whom an ample retiring pension was already secured , so as to render him more independent of opinion than any Speaker who ever before filled the chair . The Speaker of that House is the first commoner of Great Britain . And this honour is treated
as something with which a Whig Government may properly and gracefully compliment a Tory . The appointment was an insult to the country . As the House represents the people ,, so on state occasions the Speaker represents the House . The voice of the
nation is uttered through the mouthpiece of an anti-reformer . There has been no such rigid economy as to make us believe that the temporary saving of 4000 Z . per annum was the real inducement for this sullying of the honour , and outrage on the feelings of the nation . It must be taken as meant to do that which it
does , viz . show how slight and easy to be complimented away , is the difference between our present rulers and our former plunderers and oppressors . By the King's Speech it was contrived at once to raise the
Irish repeal question , and declare war with the main body of the Irish Members , or rather with that individual to whom , whatever , his errors , Ireland owes so much . What have been the effects of this procedure ? Not the settlement of the repeal question . No man in his senses could have expected that . A legislative separation has never been so popular in Ireland as at the present moment . Nor is it a question to be disposed of in a summary manner . Canada has its Parliament , and the West India islands have , many of them , their Parliaments ; yet the empire is not dismembered thereby ; and many advantages mighty arise from putting Ireland on a similar footing . But we are not about to argue the question now . Probably there will be a time when the public will have quite enough of the discussion . It has certainly
not been precluded by the debate and vote on the Address . But if that was not done , something else was . Division and dissension were created amongst the reformers in Parliament . For this most unnecessary and mischievous act we hold Ministers responsible . By the allusion in the King's Speech , and the tone which was given to the debate at its very commencement , they sowed the seeds , which instantly sprang up , of unparalleled animosities . They did all that they could to break up that phalanx of reformers against which all the Toryism in the House could have offered scarcely the slightest resistance . They agitated
most wantonly and wickedly , in order to put down O'Connell , and produce distinction and bitter hostility between their own adherents and the more t ; horough-going reformers . They commenced the campaign with an infuriate attack upon men who had been their allies in carrying Parliamentary Reform , and who were their natural allies -for any further proceedings on behalf of the people ' s rights and interests against the ( formerly ) common enemy * What can we aay to such conduct as this ? If there
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244 On the Conduct of Ministers since the Meeting of Parliament .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1833, page 244, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2612/page/28/
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