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mons . Then the- Tories must have determined either to rule without the Commons , or to corrupt or pverawe them . Moreover the Dissenters may learn that they must not be satisfied , in the elections which may be coming , with general professions of adhesion to the late ministry or to the cause of reform . All have not been their friends that seemed so . There must be a clear understanding , on this , as on some other points .
With a solicitude which the selfishness of Toryism has sometimes shown on previous occasions , the ' Quarterly' makes the King personally responsible for the recent hateful change , which it thinks in harmony with the general character of monarchical government . This is backing one ' s friends . Even Jacobins blushed for the cowardly desertion of Louis XVI . by the privileged classes of France . But ' the age of chivalry is gone , ' and certainly it will never
be revived by modern Tories . The King , the King ! let the King bear all . ' We are satisfied that his people at large will show that they see in all this affair additional motives of respect , loyalty , and affection . ' And if they do not , who can help it ? No doubt they will see also that , as the' Quarterly' gravely adds , by exercising , pro tempore , all the powers of Government , the Duke has evinced 1 magnanimity unparalleled in political history . ' The people will not be insensible of his deserts .
For ourselves we are rather looking to the magnanimity' of the Reformers , who are now rallying as one man to prevent a retrograde movement which would be most debasing and ruinous . We cannot suppress the feeling that ,, however demanded by the exigency of the time , however essential to all the national interests , this is magnanimity . The Whigs had generated a disgust which only principle can overcome . They had delayed , truckled ,
compromised . They had weakly sought to conciliate , by putting arms into the hands of their and the country ' s deadliest enemies . They had endeavoured to govern by yielding , and by echoing the cant , and employing the agency of Tories . And they leave office ; bitter must be their reflections on that disgraceful truth ; after four years of power , with Castlereagh ' s six Acts , and the
taxes on knowledge , unrepealed . Not four days of power should they have possessed , without sweeping both from the statute book But they are out ; and * we can only endeavour to provide that no popular ministry shall take office without the amplest security for the people ' s progressing rights , and the unconditional capitulation of the court .
In spite , however , of these resolutions ; in spite of an abundance of Tory profession ; in spite of the treason of journals * ( the ? The facility with which the * leading Journal * veered round from its former position of intra-whiggism , and showed itself , not purely Tory , but / fo / a-tory , only failed of being very amusing by being so very disgusting . The most curious incongruities found their way into its columns in consequence of the suddenness of the change . The subalterns had not their cue for a day or two . They were like Frenchmen at the restoration , marching under the white flag with the tri-colour cockade in
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The Wellington Dictatorship . 825
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 825, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/7/
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