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642 On the Close qf ike Session .
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several times in public , and the people have neither hissed nor applauded him ; their minds are ! bent oh deeper matter . Peel is universally known to be a greater hypocrite than ever . Old Waterloo has talked himself out of a small portion of public hatred ^ and replaced it by a larger portion of public contempt . Cutnberiand has been obliged to escape to Kalisch in a worse condition than if he had been proved guilty . Lyndhurst has m&d& the Tory cause worse than ever , l > y sucking the marrow of \ lfe Corporation Bill . Colonel Pairman has made it clear that the army are not quite such useful protectors as was supposed ; and the rebuilding of the House of Lords not having yet commenced , it will perhaps be saved altogether . And last , not least , the House of Commons is understood , as a body , not to be implicitly depended on by the people . It will be well to intimate to them , next session , that the proper mode of proceeding with the Lords
is to grant no Supplies till all the various Bills of Reform are passed . The House , however , will not do that till a very strong pressure * is felt from without . The travelling agitation of O'Connell will do good service ; it will stir up people ' s brains , and teach men to think rather more than he seems to contemplate . He lays great stress on the advantages of hereditary monarchy , for the sake of keeping c so rich a prize' out of the way of temptation for a struggle . You will alter this opinion , Daniel , ere five years
elapse , and discover that hereditary monarchy is no better than hereditary legislation . Meanwhile , it would be an excellent thing if our popular orators would take on themselves the office of lecturers , after fitting themselves for the task by previous study , and go through the country on continual tours , spreading information , and teaching those who are ignorant on important political subjects . Such a mode were worth all the books that could be written . It is a mode in which , more than in
any other , clear-headed men could fit themselves for the office of legislators , for they would study human nature while removing ignorance . Lord Melbourne has won much repute during the last session by his firmness , and has probably thereby induced many to hope more from him than can be expected . This is vain . Tory insolence made him do what he did , in self-defence . Lord
Melbourne is not a purpose-maker ,, but a circumstance-folloWer ; and it is well the people should know this . If they drive him , he will act ; if they do not drive him , lie will do nothing , unless , perchance , the Tories should worry him as before . Meanwhile , w& look for ward to a stirring world in the session which is to come . In the people our trust is strong : not so in the Whigs—they will , at last , join their natural allies the Tories . Junixjs * Redivivu& .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 642, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/14/
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