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option , and the occasion for making a claim superseded by the universality of the advantage ^ , . » , ; The introduction of another oath . at the very time that a . hill is passing through the Legislature for diminishing the number of those useless and of tea profane appeals to the Deity , might surely have been avoided ; and -will , we hope , be averted . Were this done , and the privilege extended to Churchman and Dissenter indiscriminately , on its being claimed , the measure would be as perfect as it can he , until some general plan of registration shall release the clergyman from an inappropriate occupation , and the parties from a disproportionate charge . F .
Personal honour and political profligacy . —Amidst the manifold crudities and absurdities which compose the chief part of the nightly conversations in the House of Commons , the germs of hope occasionally show themselves , giving promise of a better future . The dispute between Joseph Hume and Robert Peel touching that very small matter , the ' honour' of the latter personage , has set many men thinking and striving to analyze the dubious commodity called public principle . The Tory Ministry found themselves in
a dilemma with regard to Ireland ; the means of coercion being rather doubtful , they were under the necessity of ameliorating the mode of administering tithe law . A bill was consequently brought in , which was so very like one prepared by the Whigs ere they left office , that it gave rise to a suspicion that the Tories had availed themselves of the identical papers , making just so much alteration as to be enabled to swear that it was not a fac-simile .
Joseph Hume challenged Robert Peel with having done this , and denounced the transaction as dishonourable . Upon this Robert Peel grew indignant , and talked about his * honour * in much the same kind of taste and spirit in which a common street-walker defends her reputation . Leaving the Honourable * House , Robert Peel grew still more wroth , and tendered a cartel of defiance to mortal combat , with choice Mantons , to the aforesaid Joseph Hume , unless he instantly declared that he , Robert Peel , was a' chevalier sans peur et sans reprochel and that the jewel of his ' honour * was without
flaw and speckless . And then the common result took place , by Joseph Hume acknowledging that though Robert Peel ' s political character was as bad as it well could be , nevertheless as a private gentleman he was all that could be desired . By so doing , Joseph Hume gave evidence , either that his standard of moralit y is a false one , or that he had not duly considered that which was asked of him . Consequent on this , Mr . Roebuck made a sarcastic speech charging Rohert Peel with a * breach of privilege' for endeavouring to intimidate Joseph Hume by threats of a duel , and thus prevent him from freely expressing his opinions in the House . On this Mr . Barron
took the opportunity of repeating the charge , adding that no motive but a * base desire of office * could induce the Tory Government to keep their places . Whereupon up started , as usual , one of the bullies of Blackwood / Henry Hardinge , and accused Mr . Barron of ' vulgar insolence , ' in a tone aptly illustrative of the thing he complained of . This , of course , drew forth defiance from Irish blooa ; and then the Speaker interfered ; and , after that , Colonel Evans made a good speech , in which he claimed , on the part of the patriots , the right on all occasions to designate political vice by its right name , concluding by reminding ' BlackwoocTs bully , * that his constant intemperate sallies by no means tended to prove his valour .
The fact seems to be , that the miserable Tories , despised and hated on all sides , and conscious of their inability to make any manly defence , are resorting to the usual practices of detected thieves , by trying to bully their assailants . Threats of duelling have become their resort , and it would almost seem as if they had held a cabinet council on the subject , for even the mild and smoothfaced Joseph Surface Peel wields ' A pistol in that hand ¦ - ¦ fc Which late a distaff held . ' '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1835, page 221, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2643/page/77/
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