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heartHy . with us ; and it was not very wise ,, though it might be generous , to believe that he was . He thinks and feels on the subject like a King , as he is . What have Kings to do with Reform ? . It is scarcely possible , unless in the exercise of a superhuman intelligence , to discern , from their position , the good produced in a community by the amelioration of political institutions . Supposing them the most purely disinterested of human beings , how should they appreciate the multitudinous influences upon condition and character , which growing liberty diffuses through the different classes of society ? This species of good comes not near them personally ; they cannot see , hear , feel ,
taste , nor therefore conceive it . They are only affected by it inconveniently : as are their hangers en , whose power and plunder are abridged . As much of mob-popularity as their eyes and ears may need , when they show themselves , can generally be purchased ; and a few dragoons , with a cohort of police , can keep unpleasant symptoms at a convenient distance .
Moreover , it is no secret that all political Reform tends towards Republicanism . We do not say that it will arrive there ; * for as Toryism may stop short of absolute Despotism , so may Reform of Republicanism . But such is the tendency of each ; and hence Kings and Tories have a natural antipathy to Reform . It is questionable whether they can ever be made to comprehend that it is
really for their own good , until they have actual experience of the fact . With that , therefore , it is the people's duty to provide them , as speedily as they can ; and , in the mean while , drop all the common humbug about their goodwill towards Reform . The only safe plan is to reckon upon their hostility . It is quite absurd in us , to resolve that we will have an hereditary King , and yet be astonished that he does not reason like a President of the United
States . We must allow him his Toryism . It is a portion of his prerogative ; and we should also calculate on his free exercise of that , as occasion serves It may be difficult to deal straightforwardly with Whigs who are sometimes crooked
themselves . Or it may be that he follows the example of ' his sainted father . * We should like to know , as * the King can do no wrong / who is responsible for the late sudden change , which might have plunged the whole country into confusion ; which did subject us to the temporary dictatorship of a soldier ; and which
may still produce a wdrld of evil . We are told that there must always be a responsible adviser . Does Sir Robert Peel become bo by taking office in consequence ? Or is it the Duke ? or who ? It should be known , because with that adviser the country has an account to settle .
The Peel Manifesto . —We never remember to have seen any composition- so thoroughly characterised as this by shallow hypo ~ erisy . There is , perhaps , no direct li < 5 in it ; there is certainly in
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 66, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/66/
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