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against the Tori ^ were gp m evvhat ^ , xi ^ i $ p ;^ | viltL . th ^ ge opl ^ as regarded the iniiiviclual ! f cries in jx > wqt ; an 4 , t > y the generous , open-hearted mob , dislikeQf , tlieir ' enemie s was consid ^ r ^ aVyrfpnymous with liking- for themselves , and they , therefore , dubo . ed ' His Majesty' William the Reformer . Tne natural traip of events , therefore , led to the appointment of the Grey Ministry , ajxd the Reform Bill . But when ' His Majesty / and those about him , began to find that this course would lead to a revision of the Civil
List , and the curtailment of Court Pensions and Court Interest , 6 Majesty' would willingly have retraced his steps , which His Majesty ' s' loving- subjects were not inclined to permit ; whereby we of the people had our English three days , ' and His Majesty ' lost his popularity . The wise course would have been to throw himself on the
people ; but instead of that , he seized on the first opportunity of turning out the people's advocates from the Ministry , and substituting the Tories for them . By so doing , he has given strength to the popular cause , and though the House of Commons is not yet all we could wish , the ' pressure from without' will doubtless
improve it and increase its energies . The present Ministry < W ? e doomed , and after suffering much annoyance they must cjep ^ rt from office sorely against their wills . It will then be with ' His Majesty' to appoint another Ministry , who will be chosen of , ^ s little Reform tendency as possible . The probability is , that I ^ ord Stanley will be the next Premier , and that Robert Peel , so well
named by the ' Examiner' Joseph Surface , will be underr devil , to do the dirty work . Lord Stanley is an Aristocrat , haughty ( an , d tyrannical ; but he cannot hold office a week , if that office be contingent on the exercise of personal hypocrisy . By the ^ i ( J Qf Robert Peel , he may contrive to put off his dismissal front ofljicf ?
ior a considerable period ; but that dismissal must cctijie at Jast , for on the rock of the Church he will wreck his political barl ^ if not on other things . His aristocratic insolence will have no tendency to lessen the number of his opponents . The Minify which comes after him will be more Radical in its tendency , aftd it is not impossible that Robert Peel may suffer his principles to be swayed by circumstances , as he has often done before , far ttye sake of keeping place ; I should not altogether despair of his
ultimately professing Radical principles . But , sooner or later , tjhe office of Premier must be wielded by Lord Durham ., who , ip the present state of public feeling , —which requires the adventitious influence of circumstances in a leader , as well as or evea mpre thafi mental power and integrity , — is the mark and type of Reform progression , — is the leader whose name will be used as the rallyi » cry of the Movement party , either so long aa he shall live , or tiU he shall set himself up as an obstacle to further progress , ia defence of his * order ; ' when the waves of public opiniou will roll over him , as they did over his relative I ^ ord G rey . / /
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1835, page 261, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2644/page/37/
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