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In the past Session a vast benefit lias been achieved . Instead of mourning over its utter sterility in the fruits of Reform , we ^ ee every reason to rejoice in its indefensible misdeeds . The Ministers have amply enlightened the people . They have done far more themselves than the freest press could have effected without
their aid , in rendering * their own deserts conspicuous to the country . They have dispelled the delirious confidence of the past , and have henceforth rendered trust in their promises equivalent to fellowship in their designs . Whoever , for the future , avows affiance in their professions , and vindicates their conduct , is one of them , and must participate in their repute .
We rejoice in the palpable evidences of evil-mindedness the Wings have exhibited . Junius has well said , that " we owe it to the bounty of Providence that the depravity of the heart js sometimes strangely united with a confusion of the mind , which counteracts the most favourite principles , and makes the same man treacherous without art , and a hypocrite without deceiving /'
The morals of the Ministry are indeed arrived at that " maturity of corruption " which renders them innoxious to the cause they would otherwise discredit . The fraud of their pretension to the character of true Reformers is now so plainly proclaimed , that the blame of the defeats of the past Session must rest solely on those who have palpably pandered to the powers of misrule .
Honest reformers owe no small measure of gratitude to the Noble Lord who , representing in his own person the soul of the Reform Ministry , has recorded his conviction that the plethoric wealth of the Church is good as a means of enlisting its Ministers on behalf of the Government of the day ! This deliberate
avowal of the principle which actuates the Ministry admits of no mistake , and bars out the possibility of further delusion or disappointment on the part of those who might have otherwise clung to their accustomed affiance in the fidelity of a Russell to the cause of Reform .
The People now clearly see that from the Ministers there is no hope of redress . Not merely have the defunct measures which have " fallen stillborn" on the table of either House evinced the impotency of the Ministers in furthering their own measures , but we are of opinion
that so attenuated was the merit of nearly every one o \ those Bills , that had they passed , in all their unabridged efficiency , into law , the People would Jiave reaped scarcely any important benefit from the entire legislation of the Session . Not only has the Government failed in overcoming the hostility of the Lords to improvement , but it has not dared to attest its
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672 The Past Sestion .
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THE PAST SESSION .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1836, page 572, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2661/page/48/
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