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influences, powerful as I felt assured they were, and the sway of these prejudices and antipathies, had again become predominant, I did feel, that if a victim to them were required, it were better that that should be the individual advocate than the general principles which he had endeavoured to support. Without these, I -believed it would not be long possible to retain that influence and support of the present political connexions of the noble Duke, as we had retained them during the last session of parliament, unless I was to suppose that different views and principles were really to be acted on by that noble person, and that those of which I have spoken, were no longer to form any part of the policy of the new government. But when I look to the satisfaction (shall I say) with which I must infer that my communication was received; to the incidents which attended, and the result which has followed from it; I do think it must have been considered necessary, in order to pacify the powerful party I have adverted to, that the state of things for which they were anxious should be supported by the removal of the individual whose principles were most opposed to it. (Hear.) I own that it would have been far more satisfactory to my feelings if I had been ingenuously told that a necessity for my resignation had arisen out of their apprehensions about those principles, and that policy; that they augured so much danger to the public and to themselves from the views which I espoused, that, short of this, nothing would allay their fears. It would have been far more satisfactory if the noble Duke had said to me:- Such are the alarms entertained by the individuals on whose assistance I principally rely for carrying on my administration, that I am obliged, on their account, to act upon the only option which remains to me, by parting with you.' I do say, looking to what was the feeling of certain parties during the last session of parliament, and comparing it with that which seems to be evidenced by the events that have occurred within the last two months; and looking to the very different manner in which circumstances, similar in their nature to some that were then dealt with, have now been taken up, I cannot help thinking that some such sentiment as this has really operated in respect of myself. If I must assume the fact of this resignation as an intimation, if not of a reversal, yet of a change of this system of policy, I cannot but regret that this unfortunate two-o'clock-in-the morning letter of mine was written, or that, when it was received, it did not occur (as it might have occurred) to the recollection of some persons, that on an occasion some what analogous to this, and which happened not more than two months ago, certain sentiments were uttered upon the

highest authority, which did the individual from whom they proceeded the highest honour."

Here he runs off into some details not very intelligible to us-and most profoundly uninteresting-yet spiced throughout with meanness and malice.

Suffice it that we now ask the reader one question-and be he Whig or Tory, to that question he will return but one answer, if an honest man. Is the passage we have now quoted from Mr Huskisson's speech consistent with his assertion, that on writing his first letter to the Duke, he was influenced solely and entirely by an earnest desire to relieve him from the "deli

cacy" of the situation in which, by that unlucky and unavoidable vote, he had unexpectedly been placed? But one answer, we say, can be returned to that question by every honest man. For here is a confession of latent fears and suspicions, and dislikes in his own bosom-towards his colleagues, and the friends and supporters of his colleagues-here is something like the old leaven of Jacobinism, seeking to leaven the whole mass.

But, emboldened by the sound of his own voice, harshly grating on all ears but his own, during so long a period of precious time, (half an hour would have done the business, had his cause been good,) Mr Huskisson lifts up his leg, and exclaims, "Lo! there is the cloven foot-ye Tories - ye enemies of all improvement." Let us hear the blundering blusterer :

"Notwithstanding the many zealous and mutual congratulations which the friends of Tory principles, as they call themselves, which the enemies of all improvement, have so liberally interchanged since my removal-notwithstanding, sir, I say, those ebullitions of zeal, and those oversteppings of prudence, which I have witnessed in some intemperate individuals, who think that the removal from office of those friends of mine, my late colleagues, who are now no longer members of his Majesty's government, is the only adequate apology which the noble Duke can make for ever having at all connected himself with us; and although I find that some of those individuals think it is the best mode of doing honour to the feelings of the noble Duke, (in which action they are most egregiously mistaken,) to say that his best excuse is to be found in the removal of my colleagues all at once-notwithstanding all these ebullitions, and in spite of I know not what to call them-the boisterous fits of mirth of those clubs-I should rather

say of those venerable buffoons-(cheers) who congregate once a-year to attempt a fraud on the ignorance of some classes of the people, under pretence of doing honour to the memory of an illustrious statesman-I say, sir, notwithstanding these extravagant expressions of joy now bursting from the same quarters where, but a few days before, all was deep and bitter wailing at the progress which the cause of civil liberty had made in this House, and at the prospect thus opened, so far as a vote of this House could indicate it, of giving religious and political tranquillity to Ire land (hear) notwithstanding these clamorous exultations, these untoward signs of the times, I for one do not think that the triumph of this party is so great, so certain, or so complete, as they are pleased to anticipate (cheers) and I cannot think that my right hon. friend, (Mr Secretary Peel,) who, as far as I know, has never entertained any opinions different from those which I had the honour to advocate in this House, connected with all measures of general policy-the Roman Catholic question alone excepted—I cannot believe that my right hon. friend has abandoned principles to which he has heretofore given his cordial support-I cannot believe that while the feelings of this House and of the country in favour of that general policy remain unchanged, they will sympathize with those exultations, whatever may be the doctrine now about strict discipline (cheers) I cannot suppose that my right hon. friend will think or believe the substantive power of the State ought to be in powerful, but unknown hands; in the hands of persons who, for reasons which I will not call in question, because I do not know them, and which they who do know them will not divulge, declare that they are not candidates for public honours, and who yet, not being candidates for such honours, attempt to put a veto upon the councils of the country, and endeavour to exclude from those councils such public servants as they happen to disapprove. (Hear.) I cannot imagine that my right hon. friend either believes, or can be taught to believe, that such a party is a more proper tribunal than the House of Commons or the public of England to decide upon the merits or demerits of individuals connected with the executive departments of the state: as little can I believe that he is one of those persons who deem it to be the first duty of the legislature to resist the progress of improvement, and to counteract every attempt to remedy those defects in our ancient institutions, whether existing in our legal tribunals, or in our system of commercial policy, for example, which have grown up in the lapse of ages, and of which public opinion and the exigencies of society demand the removal-I cannot believe that he is one who looks with apprehension at

the spread of knowledge, or contemplates with alarm the extension of a system which shall communicate and reciprocate in all parts of the world the benefits resulting from commercial intercourse, or from the interchange of those improvements which have been for some time past gradually dif fusing themselves over all the civilised states of the world an interchange which involves the surest principles of general advantage with the capability of its widest possible diffusion. (Hear, hear.) I will not think such things of such an individual

I will not think so lightly of a man of whose judgment I entertain so high an opinion. I should be indeed passing the foulest libel on him if I were to suppose that he could wish to see England again placed in that political position in which she should occupy but the fifth or sixth sta tion among the nations, or in which she should be again dishonoured by a connex ion with, or a dependence on, the Holy Al liance (loud cheers); or if I could imagine that he would think it a cheap price to pay for the support of such prejudices as I speak of the putting down public opinion, the freedom of discussion, the freedom of the press, and all those other moral causes which now operate to the improvement of our common nature and of our political in stitutions. (Cheers.) I will not believe that my right honourable friend would give the sanction of his support to measures calculated, or at least intended, to restrain the advance of human improvement to impose fetters upon the energy of the human mind-to place it again un◄ der the tutelage of superstition or the bondage of ignorance, or that he would oppose those measures of commercial policy which are the best, and safest, and most perma nent securities of the prosperity and grandeur of states, without compelling them to have recourse to the more ancient and much more dangerous defences of standing armies. (Hear, hear.) I trust that if such mischievous projects should ever be the views of any party in this country, my right honourable friend would be the first to repel and discountenance everything of that sort, and in that arduous task I am confident he would at all times receive the support of parliament and the countenance of the British public."

John Lord Eldon called a venerable buffoon, by such a vulgar fellow as William Huskisson! How must the gentlemen of England, spite of all' insolent slanderer! As for Mr Peel, party spirit, despise in disgust the we hope, for the sake of his high ho nour and his high talents, that he scorns the insidious eulogy thus spitefully spat upon him; and certainly, though in some few parts rather too

mild and mawkish, his speech in reply to Huskisson was most triumphant. Huskisson seems to think the powers of a Minister far greater than they ever were in his hands, and that Secretaries, Home, Foreign, and Colonial, can place Britain as low down as they choose in the scale of nations. He cautions Mr Peel not to reduce her to the fifth or sixth order. That is childish folly, and impertinence. Britain will take too good care of herself, in the midst of all imaginable mismanagement, to suffer any minister, or set of ministers, to class her among the junior optimes-to place the wooden spoon in her mouth. To any man, who will tell us what this brawler means, by hoping that Mr Peel will not put down public opinion, and destroy the liberty of the press, and stop the march of intellect, and all those other moral causes which now operate to the improvement of our common nature and of our political institutions, we here come under a solemn engagement in the face of Europe to give, on the arrival of the first month with an R in it, a bushel of Powldoodies.

Mr Peel is in all things Mr Huskisson's superior. Were the world all at once to be darkened, Mr Peel would feel exceedingly uncomfortable, and call for lights. Mr Peel knows well, and much delights in a thousand

things, of which Mr Huskisson knows no more than a Bat knows of rainbows. Mr Huskisson, therefore, should not give his advice till it is asked for ; Mr Peel is no patient of his, and needs not powders; to attempt thrusting medicine down a man's throat, who, the quack himself admits, is, for the time being, in good health, is, though Mr Huskisson be no Catholic, a work of absurd and insolent supererogation. That is not a privilege, or birth-right of his, by any manner of means; there certainly are confederacies of noble families in Great Britain to prevent that; and the aristocracy of the country will not endure such practices at the hands of any Jacobin that ever wore a red cap, or applied his feeling finger, with a well-satisfied grin, to the fine edge of a guillotine.

Mr Huskisson concluded his long and windy harangue, by declaring his belief that "he has not incurred the displeasure of his Sovereign, nor placed himself in any situation to stain the fair character which he hopes he has always maintained in this House." He is grossly mistaken; his Sovereign cannot but have been displeased by his most suspicious resignation; the House cares little about him; and he knows that the whole country is rejoiced that he is out of the Government.

VOL. XXIV.

WORKS PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION.

LONDON.

In the press," The Casket;" a Miscellany, consisting of Original Poems, by some of the best living Authors. To be published, by subscription, in 8vo, by Mr Murray, Albemarle Street.

A Dissertation on the Passage of Hannibal over the Alps. By the Rev. J. A. Cramer,
M.A. and H. L. Wickham, Esq. A new edition, with Additions, in 8vo.
Captain G. Beauclerk is preparing his Journey to Morocco.

Dr John Crawford Whitehead is engaged on a Tragedy, to be called the Reign of James
II. or the Revolution of 1688; with Historical Notes, &c.

Mr Edward Upham, after much laborious research, has just completed his Work on Buddhuism; it will appear in imp. 4to, illustrated with numerous Engravings, from Cingalese originals.

A Supplement to the Rev. G. S. Faber's Difficulties of Romanism, in Reply to an Answer by the Bishop of Strasbourg, late of Aire.

Brief Remarks on the practicability of applying a Spheroidical Correction to the Bearings by Compass at Sea. By Lieut.-Col. J. Hobbs, Royal Engineers.

Dr Burrows has in the press, Commentaries on Insanity. In 8vo.

Nearly ready, in 2 vols. 8vo, Recollections of a Three Years' Service during the War of Extermination in Venezuela. By an Officer of the Colombian Navy.

The Bride, a Tragedy, from the pen of Joanna Baillie, the celebrated dramatic poetess, will speedily be published.

Mr Chandos Leigh has in the press a second edition of his Poems, to which will be added a Fourth Epistle to a Friend in Town.

The History of the Rise and Progress of the Mahomedan Power in Indía, from its commencement in the year 1000 till 1620. Translated by Lieut.-Col. John Briggs, late Resident in Satara, from the original Persian of Mahomed Kasim Astrabady, entitled Ferishta. In 3 vols. 8vo.

The Life and Times of Archbishop Laud, by John P. Lawson, M.A., is preparing for publication, in one volume 8vo.

The Rev. Richard Warner will shortly publish an edition of the Book of Psalms, according to the authorised Version, with Practical Reflections and Notes, in one octavo volume.

The ninth No. vol. X. of Neale's Views of Seats, will appear on the 1st of June. Amongst other subjects in hand for this publication are the following :-Aldermunster, Cothelstone, and Holland Houses, Holme Park, Dalkeith Palace, &c.

An 8vo edition of Mr Waterton's Wanderings in South America, is in the press. Twelve Lectures on the Acts of the Apostles, by the Bishop of Chester, are announced for publication.

A new Quarterly Magazine, to be entitled the "Cheltenham Album," is expected to make its appearance on the 1st of July next.

The second edition, enlarged, of Popular Premises examined, or a Philosophical Inquiry into some of the Opinions of Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Newton, Clarke, King, Lawrence, &c. on Deity Doctrines and the Human Mind in connexion with the Eternity of Matter and the Origin of Moral Evil, by R. Dillon, will be published early in June.

MONTHLY LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

LONDON.

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Addison on Malvern Waters, Scrofula, and Consumption. 8vo, 6s. 6d.
Alcock's Hospitals of Paris. 18mo, 3s. 6d.

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