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the end. He is carrying on the same system; the taxes are all to be kept up; we are still to pay in gold, debts contracted in depreciated paper; and, in every direction, force seems to be intended to supply the place of obedience proceeding from good-will.

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During the last elections, the people were everywhere told, and in Northum berland most positively told, that a very great change of system was intended. I know a very sensible man in that counIn the address which I published ty, who spoke to a very near relation of when I went off to Long Island, after Lord Grey in somewhat these words: observing upon the violent efforts which" I hope that a very great change of the oligarchy was then making to up-" system is intended by the Minister; hold the system, and remarking upon" a very great change; a very great the measures that they then seemed to" lowering of taxes and of establishhave in view by patching their affairs" ments; a very great change in the up by the means of a new issue of paper "affairs of the Established Church; a money, I concluded thus: ""The pro-" total change as to pensions, sinecures, bability is, that the thing will go on; " and unmerited pay of every descrip"that the system will be upheld by the "tion; as also in the game-laws, and keeping on of all the taxes, by the" those other new and severe laws which issuing of Exchequer bills as often as are now so hated and detested by the "occasion may require; and that all" people : for," said he, common sense "the pensions, sinecures, allowances," must tell Lord Grey that, if he do not grants, and all other expenses, in- " make such changes, he will not only "cluding that of a thundering standing" be as unpopular as the worst of his army, will be kept up to the last" predecessors, but more so, and a great possible moment, till, amidst the war" deal more so; because he will have "of opinions and of projects, of inte-" the power to do the good which none "rests and of passions, the whole thing" of his predecessors have had: he will "will go to pieces like a ship upon the" be relieved from the control of the "rocks." It is impossible to look at " oligarchy, under which control all these words without being stricken" his predecessors have been obliged to forcibly by their application to the scene" rule." In answer to these observaof things now before their eyes; and it tions, this gentleman received for anreally does seem to be next to impos-swer: "You may rely upon it; you sible that the result here predicted," may make yourself quite easy upon should not be finally verified. Many "that score; you may rely upon it, times since that passage was written, I" that Lord Grey is determined to make have publicly addressed letters to Lord" a complete change in the whole sysGrey, always foreseeing, that if he lived" tem of sway." till the Pittite crew could get along no further, he must necessarily be at the head of affairs. Foreseeing this, I warned him over and over again, that, if he attempted to carry on the same system, he would be ruined in reputation, and that general convulsion must be

Now, while I know that this very near relation did say this, I believe that, at that time, Lord Grey did intend to make the changes here described. This was some time in the month of August or September. But, when he came to look at the matter more closely; when

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he came to look into the enormous dif- | soul to approach his ear, with any voice ficulties which he had to encounter; other than that of dismal forebodings of and particularly when he came to hear the consequence of change, he appears assailing him from all quarters, the to have resolved to make no change at clamours of the parties who would have all; to keep on all burdens; and to been affected by the changes, he wanted rely upon force; upon a forcible exerthe resolution to proceed. He thought cise of the law, rather than make any it a matter of less difficulty to get along appeal whatsoever to the good-will of with the old system, such as it was, the people in order to obtain their than to set in earnest about this exten- cheerful submission. Accordingly, this sive change. Nothing would have been course has been pursued. It has been more easy, as far as related to the power pursued without any settled design on of making the change; but, then, there his part, or on the part of any body was the ruin which the making of the else to abridge the liberties and add to change would have brought upon so the sufferings of the people. It has been many thousands upon thousands of per-pursued from necessity; because it was sons who were living at their ease and impossible to carry on the system not in splendour upon the fruits of the in-only without rigour, but without addidustry of the people. To have popularity; to enjoy the remainder of a life of popularity, was a thing which he must naturally have desired; but, to see the ring in Hyde Park divested of its brilliancy; to see "Pall-Mall East" and "Strand West" smashed before they were hardly finished; to see the glittering gorgets all disappear from the Horse-Guards; never again to hear the troop beaten from the score of drums and played from the two score of musical instruments under his windows at Downing-street: to contemplate this change appears to have been too much for him, especially as he could not have under his immediate view that side of the picture which would have been more than a balance for this. To behold the change which would have been produced in the house of the tradesman in every town in England but London, and in the resorts of the idlers; to behold the mended lot and more moderate labour of the artizan and the labourer; to behold the revived happiness of the hedger and the ploughman; to see the beer-barrel, the clock, the Sunday coat, the brass-kettle, the good bedding; to see these return to the dwellings of the agricultural labourers, was a thing too distant and not sufficiently captivating to weigh for a moment against the melancholy state of the ring in Hyde Park and the smashing of the brilliant clubhouses. With this alternative of con- 66 sequences before him, and with not a

tional rigour; the expectations of the
people; their expectations of a great
change having been so universal and so
confident. Hence it is that there never
was a Ministry so unpopular as this.
Formerly the Ministry always had a
certain party with them: however odious
their measures, however oppressive,
however severe, there was always a por-
tion of the people, and particularly of
people of property, to side with them;
to justify their measures, or, at least, to
apologize for them. This is not the
case now. Those who live upon taxes,
naturally approve of this resolution not
to make any change; but even they hold
their tongues; so that, from one end of
the kingdom to the other, the Ministry
hear nothing but the voice of reproba
tion of their conduct, and reprobation of
the conduct of their supporters. Yet,
such is our situation, that there is no
man who either expects or seems to
wish for any change in the Ministry,
who may be said to hold their places
because there is nobody to put into
them; and, indeed, nobody that would
be willing to take their places! Several
years ago; as many as five years, I made
my readers laugh by saying that,
wards the end," nobody would like to
be Minister; and that I thought it very
likely that the affair would go on, until,
at last, no one would accept of an office
in the Ministry, "unless it were some
one who stood in the need of the neces-

to

"saries of life." Extravagant as this no

tion was in appearance, is there any man who will now say, that it was totally destitute of foundation? After what we have seen in the case of Hobhouse; after what we now behold in the case of Littleton; after seeing, in short, all that we have seen since the meeting of Parliament, is there any man who has a sufficiency to eat and to drink and to wear, who would be likely to testify an eagerness to get into this Ministry?

wholly unexpected, that it was both expected and foretold, unless the Parliament and the Ministry resolved to make a very great change. Unless they resolved upon this, it was clear that the two factions, or political parties which had been at war with each other so long, would join, would cordially unite; and that nothing would be done that the people wanted to have done.

Even before the Parliament There are people who believe that met, it was pretty evident that the rePeel is about to join them; and I be- solution had been taken to make no lieve that he and they both wish it. It material change; and that the two paris very clear that he has been working ties had agreed to stand by each other; with them and they with him; but, and the moment a question of trial though he has helped them greatly in arose, this union became evident to all the way of voting; though he found the world. It was no longer a question fault withthem for going so fur in reducing of popularity: it had manifestly been taxes, according to the budget; though determined on to set unpopularity at he supported them in the Irish bill; defiance; and the question now is, against Mr. Attwood's motion, and in how long a Government can be carried rescinding the vote on the malt tax; on in this country under such universal absolutely to join them openly and and decided unpopularity. If the Parshare in their power, is quite another liament were legally of short duration, matter. The increase of his friendship the Ministry could not go on, even now. and the decrease of their popularity Still some accident may arise to shorten have gone on hand in hand. He has its duration; and then there must, seen this, and he now sees the immense somehow or another, be an end to this amount of their unpopularity; and, state of things: the present system having apparently a very strong dislike will, in all probability last out the preto real responsibility, he can have no sent Parliament, and will last no stomach for sharing in that unpopula- longer. rity. Besides this, he would certainly In the meanwhile, there are collateral lose more than half of those who have matters, quite sufficient to shake any hitherto gone along with him; and, Ministry that ever existed. The Bank moreover, he is no more sure of being charter may be easily got over for the re-elected for Tamworth, than Hob- present; the East India charter is a house was sure of being re-elected for thing that men in general trouble themWestminster. There are all these ob- selves but little about; but the negro jections to an open and official junc-slavery question is one that would be ture between the parties; and to all quite enough to engage the undivided these may be added, that the junction attention of any set of statesmen that would, if possible, render the minority ever existed. The opposition of the more odious than it is now; and if it" West Indian body,' as they call did not diminish their majorities in the House of Commons, which it probably would not, the result would be, that the House would only share the fate of the Ministry in the opinions of the people. There never was a state of things like this before the people all of one mind, and that mind decidedly opposed to those who rule over them. This state of things, however, is so far from being

themselves, might, perhaps, be safely set at defiance, in the midst of thousands upon thousands of petitions in favour of freeing the negroes. I have no doubt of the total inutility of this opposition, which might be, and which I dare say will be, easily voted down; but, it is by no means certain that this voting will ensure submission on the part of the colonial assemblies, the