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    What a firm faith must the Tories have in the gullibility of the people . The worst of it is , that they have some grounds for their confidence . As the Times threw out its feelers from week to week , there were folks who began to shake their heads wisely ; and even some sappy reformers questioned whether Lord Melbourne could meet this action as Premier of England . The mouths of multitudes of gaping ganders were

    open , ready to quack out , a « soon as the trial was over , ' ( J these be your reformers ! These be your blue-stockings !" The saints , too ; the religious Times had already insinuated the question , ' what will the saints do ? ' And very likely , had the trial worn a different complexion , the saints might have made fools of themselves ; and not only fool ? , but rogues and traitors also . For to that it would have amounted , had thev played the game of the public Enemy , and aided in driving from his post such a man as Lord Melbourne , to the probable admission of the Tories , and to the certain weakening and

    deteriorating the present Administration . No result within the largest limits of probability could have levelled Lord Melbourne ' s character with that of persons in public station ^ whom the world , saints included , " treats with all possible respect . " The bare notion of the charge , supposed not only

    the folly which tempts roguery to play upon it , but a folly which voluntarily gives itself up to roguery , and runs to meet its doom halfway . Thank heaven for your escape , good people of England . We should have had rare morality in a Tory restoration . Nor is there any Whig , peer or commoner , whom we cotild have seen in Lord Melbourne ' s shoes without sore

    misgiving ;? . Not until the House of Commons is much more entirel y identified with the people ; perhaps , not until the people themselves arc more enlightened and principled , can we expect to see a better man at the head of affairs . His breaking off

    from the Grey plan of only introducing such measures into the Commons as were likely to pass the lLords , was a noble step , and has done a world of good . It whs a signal for renewed advance , after we had begun to retrograde . Ireland would not lose him for a little ; and , at present , Ireland is in the right . The warnith and frankness of his speeches we heartily admire . He deserves to be a Radical , for he feels and acts like a man ,

    although lie is a Whig Lord . When the Church is dallied with , and the Ballot is burked , and a newspaper stamp retained , w «> would fain forget that he is implicated in the feeble () 6 licy of his party . It is pleasanter to remember that he has ed them further than they ever went before . Let us thank him for that , and look to ourselves . W , J . F .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 400, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/8/