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Whether the placing representation on the broadest bati * abolishing the aristocratical privilege of hereditary legislation , entirely disconnecting the Church from the State , and even modifying tile executive power , would be the good which many think ; or the mischief which you suppose , is not the question . That to
force on the premature and heated discussion of these topics would be an enormous evil , there can be no question . And forced on it must be by the success of your party . Let us then go on quietly . We know you are a great man and a wonderful conqueror . We know you beat Napoleon ,, and that you are a Duke and a Prince , and have had prodigious estates given you both in
this and other countries . We know you are a great favourite with the Bishops , and the Universities , and the despots of the Holy Alliance . You have adventured most successfully in the great lottery , and been a marvellously fortunate fellow . Sit down in peace , and leave us in peace . You are not qualified for a statesman . The career which commenced with the convention
of Cintra ought to have closed with the capitulation of Paris . We know you have the power . We know you can act upon the Sorereign . We know the Court and the Aristocracy are with you . We know you are backed by the mighty interests of that ecclesiastical corporation which , for the sake of decency , is called a Church . We know you have the House of Lords , and above two hundred
members of the House of Commons . We know you are supported by all the possessors and expectants of public property throughout the country . We know you have all that is selfish and servile in the corrupt sections of the middle class , and that you can buy the purchaseable rabble of the lowest . We know that the army is yours ; horse , foot , artillery , ' pioneers and all . ' We
know that against this formidable array we have but two things to oppose—our arguments and our numbers . But we also know that these are an opposing force by which you and your faction must eventually be overwhelmed . You are warned against the destruction of the present Administration , the dismissal of which you can perhaps any day procure , simply on account of the niass
of mischief , profitless even to your party , which it would occasion , and which would be beyond remedy . The country is in a favour * able mental state for improvement ; alive to the necessity for further changes , and yet disposed towards patience and cotifidenoe . The machinations of your faction are the chief disturbing
foroe . Drive us not to extremities . The more frequently ohtangeg occur in the government , the more hastily will changes be wrought in our institutions . You will only render the destruction more wide , and the renovation more questionable ^ The organ of the philosophic Radicals * already complains of the Wh ^ gn that ' the destructive part of thei r measures is almost alwayfe godd > but the constructive part bad / It iacukat e * the * The Landa * K * ri ** , No . % Ust Article .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 507, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/7/
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