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they played Canning , the first time he entered the House of Commons after his mother ' s death ; when a letter was put into his hands , with ample heraldic seal and noble crest , which only contained , under a blank cover , an old provincial playbill with her name amongst the dramatis perso ? ice , That was
legitimate aristocratic spite , and honest . They despised the talented plebeian , and threatened his demolition because he would no longer be their minion . But the adultery which they imputed , they did not despise ; if they believed , they simply envied . Pillared statue of Waterloo-place , did not thy bronze blush at the base hypocrisy ? And this was the contrivance which was again to have given us Lyndhurst for
Lord Chancellor , Wellington for First Lord of the Treasury , and Elienborough for the Board of Control ! Verily , the modesty of the means would be matchless , were it not for the patriotism of the purpose . If we had been doomed again to bear that degrading and rapacious domination , its coming in such a mode would have made it doubly bitter . No ; if it
must return , let it be by royal vacillation , by Whig imbecility , by fanatic wrong-headedness , by lordly perversity , by unblusnitig bribery , or by the bare swords of hireling soldiers ; anyway but through the sacrifice of an intelligent and lovely woman on the altar of Hypocrisy , repeating his filthy ritual of cant and blander . The success of this notable plot to drive Lord Melbourne from the helm of the State , would indeed ( had it originated as much in fact as it did in falsehood ) have maintained a
disgusting unity of spirit with the late Tory restoration . Having achieved his first dismissal through the demise of a superannuated lord , the second was fitly anticipated from the exposure of an unfaithful lady . What ideas some people have of the dignity of politics and the government of nations ! The promoters of this miserable and baffled attempt belong ^ it seems , to the tlite of the faction , which is , par excellence , the
party of the aristocracy . It is a specimen of the means which they will not disdain to adopt , for restoring the grace , glory , and gallantry of the good old times . Thus would they restrain the upstart vulgarity " which jostles them in the reformed House of Commons ; preserve the polish by which vice loses " half its enormity , in losing all its grossness ; " and save the " Corinthian capital of society " from the rude mechanical
powers of Utilitarianism under which it totters . Delicate and dainty spirits ! How long will it take to teach them that their imposture is near an end ; to make them know that they are known ; and bring home to their conceptions the fact that the qualities winch justly dignify the name of Gentleman may even fiow be sought for with not less success amongst operatives than amongst Honourables . " If " manners make the man , "
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394 Politics of the Common Pleas .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 394, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/2/
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