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the illustrious name you bear , and tend yet more to endear it to the nation ; it cannot , I fear , be denied that some of them are of a different description , end that you have , on more than erne occa-8 Jon > been signally unfortunate in your addresses to those who are * or were , your constituents . Nolonger ago than last January
you jxiade a very uncalled-for declaration against voting by ballet ; a practice which , had it existed , would in all probability hare secured , you from the mortification of passing , . when ypu became one of his Majesty ' s Ministers , from the representation of the county of Devonshire to that of the borough of Stroud *
You have now made a general profession of hostility against any such further reforms as come under the denomination of ' organic changes / and , as under all the circumstances I am entitled to assume ^ with an especial re ference to those modifications of the House of Lords wnich are loudly demanded by the people at
large . You have voluntarily and needlessly pledged yourself , as a member of the Government , to sustain that body in its present constitution , and with its present functions &nd authority . It seems to me that in so doing you have aqfed most unadvisedly . Your language is inexpedient , in reference to the present state of
parties and of public opinion ; unwarrantable , as to the contemp lated changes , to which you allude ; and unworthy of any man intrusted with the office of a legislator , to say nothing of the powers of Government , in a free and enlightened community , I shall shoW cause for each of these positions , and thereby justify my addressing you in the tone of expostulation and remonstrance . In condemning your language as inexpedient * it is taken for
granted that your Lordship is not one of that class of politicians , or rather of political philosophers , who disclaim all consideration of what is commonly termed expediency . There are such men , ( and Heaven forbid the race should ever become extinct I ) disregarded ^ 1 though they may often be by the multitude , and exposedto the scoff and scorn of the dexterous leaders of parties , and balancers < rf conflicting interests . There are such men , and the country owes
them much for preserving the light of principles unquenched them much for preserving the light of principles unquencaeu through many a dark and stormy year , until the lamp was taken from their sepulchres to be placed before the niche of some political saint of the day , who had reaped , in popularity , the harvest wbich they had sowed under persecution . The time , it seema * is # * en yet not gone b y > for a Brougham to sneer at a Gartwtight . * The sarcasm might have been levelled eUewhera , Thars is * u >
pAWity of target * for the dart * of that keen marksman * and he mi g ht as well reserve them for the living foes of our country * * Wdotu . With all his peculiarities , hia inapracticabilities , &pd fo blunders , th * veaerabla Major ujtfield the cause of Reform wtym e £ those who one * were * and now again ere its professed friends , W W * J was cold * Bftpxp * # * aikpt , wd some itow tpoatftte * . He
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 694, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/2/
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