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Adpresemt ; yd * will rmwgBboi ^ > I am qgty arguing iriteucpqagiioft o jexpeiiienlcy * Whether the p ^ p le be right '© r wroh ^ % ris ^ 6 iodUsi * * Btill * so far as -they are Reformers , they require &hfat * VS « deprecated Th ^ y : are blamed for being supine' at tl * e la&t « W * tiau ^ iTheir conduct is contrasted with what it was in 1831 Had
1833 . So fer as therein any truth in the charge , the fault lifca with those who had 3 in the interval , been disappointing thdlr expectations . You cannot , my Lord , at once oppose their wiahe $ and i ^ etain their support . Y our dependence upon them i » well described by the writer to whom I have just referred . ' Other Ad * ministrations have known and felt that their existence defended ministrations have known and felt that their existence depended
upon the favour of the Court and the countenance of the Pfeers / and to a pertain degree , on the support of the people ; ifo * feels and knows that its existence depends on the people ' s support alone . Most other Administrations have acted as if they had only to do nothing offensive towards the country , and had chiefly to please the Aristocracy , which in truth domineered alike over the Sovereign and his subjects ; this must go a good deal further
—it must transpose the former rule , doing nothing offensive < t 6 the Aristocracy and the Crown , but seeking first of all to please the people . What the Court and the Lords once were , the people are now- ~ rthe breath of the Ministry ' s nostrils . ' And in such a state of things it / is that you , my Lord , a principal member of the Administration , and its representative in the House of Commons , have ventured a declaration which , in all common parlance * would characterize its author as an Anti-reformer or
Conservative . « The foregoing remarks apply solely to the expediency of your language . I come now to the question of its political truth , or soundness . If you have expressed yourself regardlessly of any such consideration , from a simple desire that the people should ' distinctly understand the views on which you have determined'feo
act , and fully prepared to risk or lose both the parliamentary support and the popularity which might be forfeited thereby , your courage claims respect , but it puts you in a false position , from which the sooner you extricate yourself the better . If your colleagues have arrived at a similar resolve , their days as an Ad * ministration will soon be numbered . You cannot stop the * efoi * m
which you commenced . You have done much towards mending the ( machinery of Government ; but the repairs must be completed before any hands can work it well . That the organie changes contemplated by the Radical Reformers are perfectly reasonable , and absolutely necessary , maybe easily showte by ihlt application of the test which you yourself have furnished . Onwfrat ground do you encourage the people ' s hope of" Mod government f Your expectations rest , and you exhort them to rest
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 701, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/9/
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