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NOTES ON THE NEWSPAPERS.
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That ftieteor light that should have been a suti , His woes , his wants , his hopes , and his despair ; And feel that spirit dwells iri « o ¥ n 4 fair star , Lone in its brightne&s and its purity ^ . ¦ ^ > This weue a dreary ^ orjd w ithout t L $ ; &afpey That the heart-wouixla jof ^ ar tli are , h ^ al'd ir > heav ' ru Wuuliam Lp ^ N Beds . ? ¦ ¦ •' . ¦ . ' ¦ . ¦» ¦ -
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The Edinburgh Dinner . — -Faretvell to the last of the Romans . The Edinburgh festivities may be regarded as the made in pacem of Earl Grey ' s political life . They lire his < lightening before death / said with him dies patrician whiggisrh . Plebeian whiggism had long preceded it to the tomb . Earl Grey was an aristocrat , and there are no more aristocrats , at least none worth
notice , of the same species . The men of family and fortune ; barriers between the king and the people , limiting the prerogative ; while they upheld the authority of the one , and patronizing , while they repressed the other ; high-minded ,, and yet narrowminded , with a lofty sense of personal honour , but with no broad
views of the morality of utility ; willing to be the friends , but scorning to be the brothers of their countrymen ; and holding , as of perfectly equal importance ,, the privileges of an order , and the rights of a nation : these persons are vanishing as & political class , and Earl Grey is their last man ; and , like Cam pbell ' s ' Last Man , ' he may die predicting his own immortality . He has done
his work , and the reform legacy of Whig aristocracy , bequeathed upon its death-bed , is a very irjiproveable inheritance for the community . The question of parliamentary Teform , half a century ago , made the reputation of Charles Grey , the oppositionist ; and the Reform Act is that hy which history will ever distinguish Earl Grey ' s administration . He was exactly the man to effect an f
• . . » _ - ~~ m . -W organic change m government , and to effect no more . It was just and right , he thought , that so much should be done for the people , and there his comprehension stopped , and well is it for nia fame , that no prospect of prolonged power , of public exertion , can now open before him , to entangle him in a vain , hitter contest with the democracy , whose bonds Be Loosed . His honour ,
integrity , firmness , and love of justice , none can doubt . They were the qualities required for the one great good which he was born to achieve , and which he has achieved . Let that be the brig htness of his setting sun , apd may the popular acclamation * of Scotland , which were the last prolonged echo of the wfrole empire's shout of gratitude , linger unbroken in his « ara > till they hear no longer . This celebrated dinner , which irds eaten by the Seotch , who were
Notes On The Newspapers.
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1834, page 738, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2638/page/64/
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