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    ¦ a hiJH '" ttiat " they have stopped tfte ' current , fajl to mark how it IjtSiWally rises above the tdps of ttieir petty dikes till it washes oVfer them , and * at lengthy sweeps them aWay altogether amidst a heap of other impediments .

    The Tories were quite right in their assertions that the principles (!!) of ' His Majesty were not reforming but conservative . That ' His Majesty' likes popularity is true enough . Even the Duke of Wellington , the ' drowner of men , ' likes popularity , and so does almost every human being . But to like popularity is one thing , and to like popular freedom is another . A West Indian

    planter likes to have merry labourers about him , but he would rather have sullen ones than pay the price of their freedom for their mirth . There is an absurd axiom in England that' the King can do no wrong . ' The meaning of this is , that his Ministers are responsible for his acts ; but what does the responsibility amount to ? That , after continuing in office an indefinite time , and perpetrating an indefinite amount of mischief , they may be turned out df their places by the excited clamour of the people , and the King

    ixlay appoint another set to tread , as nearly as possible , in the footsteps of their predecessors . Any rational objection to this tnode of proceeding is met by the temporizers with the reply , ' It id the King ' s prerogative to choose his Ministers ; and that of the House of Commons to object to them . ' The evil of this is plain . Th ^ King , in half an hour , in a lit of ill temper , or folly , or fear ,

    Of venality , may do a mischief which it will take a House of Commons six months to undo . The only effective process for stopping a rntechievous and obstinate Ministry is to ' stop the supplies , ' sfttd this act is synonymous with throwing a whole covmtry into tjonftfsion ; and , moreover , when the mischievous Ministry lias been piit o \ xf of office , there is no security that the King will appoint a better . The King wields an irresponsible authority , and this is one of the crying evils of our so much lauded ' Constitution .

    The Duke of Clarence , like most of his relatives , was ever famous for a strong money-spending capacity , which constantly led him to Outrun his income . His tastes were far from refined , and his excitements were somewhat of the coarsest . To gratify them , hfe teas at one time anxious to marry the fortune of Miss Tilney L . bng , who , howes er , preferred to endow the spendthrift Wellesley

    Pole . He afterwards married a German princess , in the hope of iti < h ^ ashlg his rental by a Parliamentary grant of £ 6 , 000 per antiurrt . During the reign of the fourth George , he was made I ^ d High Admiral , and in that capacity he gratified his tastes for n 6 ise and show at a considerable expense of gunpowder . Tfeia did ttot suit the Tory Minister , who wanted the money for other

    purposes . The Lord High Admiral , according to Court scandal , owed th ^ m a grudge for this , and threatened to * go it' with them ac thfc fltfst cpfiortutiity , whfctft his power might eqtial his will . When William the Fourth ascended the throne his feelings

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1835, page 260, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2644/page/36/