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such a commutation as will shift the pressure to the part where it can best be borne . How oddly , how disgustingly , does the idea of a reformed Parliament and a real representation of these petitioners , associate with the facility with which the bonus to the West Indian interest was transformed from a loan to a gift , and from fifteen to twenty millions !
The singularity of the last petition in the Table , baffles our principles of classification . We cannot just now ascertain whether the one subscriber of the one petition for the impeachment of Ministers , was the chairman of a meeting , or represented only himself . His prayer is gone to the limbo of vanity . It would be a sight for sore eyes , to see the House of Lords sitting in
judgment on a whole Administration ; and such a House on such an Administration . « Leave them to Heaven / good man : as Hamlet did his mother ; and if they have indeed , like her , played false , and been made traitorous to reform , by the blandishments of Aristocracy , a heavier retribution than impeachment before the Lords ( Polonius , we suppose , to fill up the parallel ) will assuredly be their destiny . Even now , they must be lost to all sense of honourable fame , not to feel the difference in their position which one short year has made . Should the hereditary fatuity to which they truckle jostle them again from office , where now are the enthusiastic multitudes that once bore them back triumphantly ? The Globe and the Times may cry ' Wolf , ' but who stirs ? There is no echo . Their firmest friends have long been reduced to
apologies for what they cannot justify , pleas of difficulty and embarrassment , and petitions for procrastination of the judgment . They have made hosts of enemies ; and many are those who would gladly have continued the confidence which they generously reposed , but who have been forced to its withdrawment by repeated disappointments , forgotten professions , violated promises , and the insane attempt to retain some hold of the people , and yet propitiate the vain and rapacious interests that can never be atone with the public good . The great object of all who aspire to public usefulness , must henceforth be to teach the pecfple ( in the pursuit of whatever promotes the real and permanent improvement of their condition ) to rely solely on themselves , and to qualify them for that self-reliance by the dissemination of political wisdom .
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PHOSPHOR . In a ffood of ether I swim , I swim ! My argent lamp dewily burning ; But , Sister ! thy splendour is dim , is dim ! As an eye to the grave returning—Why 18 thy beauty mour ning ?
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PHOSPHOR AND IIESPER .
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4 . 48 Petitions to Parliament .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1833, page 448, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2618/page/8/
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