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to no more respect than any stack of take the following article from the pen such fagots (which they call bavins) that of my dignitary, Dr. BLACK, as it ap you see standing about upon the skirts pears in his paper of the 8. instant. of the commons in Surrey. A great is long, but it is very interesting, as it deal of trouble, then, have we been contains a full development of the giving our silly selves for no useful feelings of a very considerable portion purpose whatsoever. For a great many of the person's on whose support the years past, all sensible men have said, King's servants, who have, by the serand the people have sometimes said in vile language of the day, been sublimtheir petitions, and, indeed, Lord ated into "MINISTERS," rely, in GREY'S petition of 1793, did, in sub-carrying on the affairs of the counstance, say, that to assemble the House try; or, more properly speaking, in of Commons was a mere useless and taking the money of the people, and expensive mockery. Now we were ex- using it according to their pleasure. pecting it to be otherwise but, if we This very considerable portion of the be to behold the House of Commons persons, whom the servants of the King thus dictated to by the servants of the rely on, consists of those whom I call King; if we be to be told beforehand, disappointed and discontented Whigs. that the House of Commons shall do Generally speaking, their disappointthis, and shall not do that; then, if any- ment and discontent are by no means thing can be worse and more degrading either unjust or unreasonable. They to us than a useless mockery, that may be blamed for having entertained worse thing we shall have. any expectation of better things; and Now, with regard to the Speaker, I they may be so blamed by me in particuwill first insert a pretty long article of lar, because I have always told them, my dignitary, Dr. BLACK; for I do not that, to expect other than that which mean that this member of parliament- they have found, was folly approaching ship shall at all diminish my prerogative to insanity. I have always, without of making dignitaries, and holding them any one single deviation in the course responsible to me. Mr. LAWLESS pro- of my life, acted upon the maxim of claimed me "MONARCH OF THE PRESS;"" blessed are they who expect nothing, and, without inquiring into his right to" but that which is to come out of their issue such proclamation, I have assumed" own individual exertions; for they the title, and, therefore, am monarch de " shall experience no disappointment facto; for I exercise the functions of" from the conduct of either fools or the office, as far as the most rebellious" knaves." This precept I have taught disposition and conduct of my subjects ever since I have had the power of will permit me; and though poor monarch was never cursed with such a set of subjects before, female as well as male, still I do contrive to control them to a certain degree, and I am and I will be their sovereign de facto, member of parliamentship notwithstanding; and I have a right, in such my capacity, to take their literary productions, and to make what use of them I please; while they, if they were dutiful subjects as they ought to be, would take care to keep their purloining hands off from mine, instead of regarding them, as they seem to do, as their common property. n virtue of this my undoubted right, bunded on the law of nature, as well as on the doctrine of all the civilians, I

teaching. In almost every work that I have ever written, and especially in my "ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN," oh, what pains have I taken to induce them to rely solely upon their own sobriety and industry, their abstinence from useless expense, and their practice of the other concurrent virtues; and never, oh, never! to dream of the possibility of acquiring wealth, or even obtaining the means of comfort, through the favour or indulgence of others; and to shun, as they would flee from the pestilence, the hope of rising in the world, or even of having a living, through the means of those who had public money to bestow. Many things have concurred to place me in the state in which I now

stand great sobriety, singular absti- all their opponents; but they hate them nence from excess in eating, early rising, more than any of the rest, because they rare bodily health, strength, and hardi- have injured them; because they have hood; and an aptitude to labour, and a done them a wrong, which it is not willingness and a delight in it, such as be- their interest to redress. These disconlong to very few men; besides which, a tented Whigs, though aided by the sadisposition never to submit to any un-gacity of Dr. BLACK, have not yet been just aggression, and to resent wrong able to discover that there is no hope done to me, be the consequences to my- for them. Like the jilted, but infatuated self what they might. But, with all lover, they cling to the deceiver; a nod these qualities, I should have been, at and a smile, though in a street where this day, a poor creeping thing, and there is no witness, hold them on, while very likely a disappointed and discon- they actually see the leaders of the two tented Whig; with all the temptations factions tumbling into the same bed! which I have had to become an expect- They are more incredulous, have more ant and a dependant, I should at this day of the political wittol, than an ostler have been a perfectly insignificant thing, whom I once heard of in a country town if God's goodness, seconded by the ex- that shall be nameless, who saw the ample of my father, had not implanted landlord's feet sticking out at the bottom in my breast, and made a part of my of the bed-clothes which covered his very nature, a something to make me beloved, and who, thinking the feet not shudder at the thought of being a sub-sufficient evidence of her want of fidelity, servient underling to any man or set of actually married the virgin the next men, for any purpose or to answer any end whatsoever.

week. The discontented Whigs far surpass this confiding ostler, for they actually see the parties sighing and almost dying for love in each other's arms. Moles are said to be blind; but a set of moles, if the present circumstances were placed before them, would see that these two factions have made a bargain to stand by one another, in order to uphold the present system of taking and using the people's money; they have made a bargain to keep down all their opponents, and amongst the rest, and more especially, the discontented Whigs.

Yet, I do not say that these disappointed and discontented Whigs are, either the whole or any considerable part of them, persons to be disregarded and despised. Much depends, when we have to estimate the character and conduct of men, upon education and upon habit. Most men, who have meddled with public matters, have ranged themselves with one or the other of the parties who have so long been scrambling for the powers of the State. When, therefore, a Whig, who, at last, sees his party in power, finds his long and patient attachment rewarded by an open and flagrant preference being given to the bitterest foes of his own party, I do not say that he is to blame for his discontent, and I do not think it just to impute it to any unworthy motive. And there are a very considerable number of very worthy men in this state of disappointment and discontent; and of these men, my dignitary, Dr. BLACK, is the organ; neither they nor the Doctor having yet been able to discover that, of all the persons whom the men in power most dislike and most hate, these discontented Whigs occupy the first "The election by the members of the Ilace. Those who are in power hate" first reformed House of Commons of

With regard to their succeeding in this; with regard to the fulfilment of this bargain, of which the re-election of the Speaker is probably part and parcel; with regard to this matter, there is a good deal yet to say; and some of that I intend to say when I have inserted the above-mentioned article of my dignitary; and when (as I hope will be the case) my reader shall have gone through it with a degree of attention worthy of its importance, bearing in mind, as he proceeds, that it is the real legitimate and official manifesto of the DISCONTENTEd Whigs.

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66 a Speaker, of enlightened political an extreme fear of the machinations "opinions, representing the spirit and" of the Tories, and constant fencing to "sentiments of the newly-constituted" ward off instead of to destroy their "legislature, is a matter of great im-" power, will terminate in the downfal 66 portance; and the conduct of Lord" of the administration. It is an old "Grey's Cabinet, directing the influence" political axiom, that a temporiser-a "of Government in the appointment, "trimmer-one who complies with "will be rigidly and severely scrutinized" times and occasions-enjoys but a "by the country. We know that the " brief political existence. The tricks 66 rumours in question have created" and devices of a metropolitan club, or (6 great political excitement, and no or- Tory clique, may demand contravendinary surprise. The continuance of "tion, but the opinion of a nation calls 66 men of Tory sentiments in office," for far more observation and respect. trust, and power-the frequent ap- "The state of parties in this country is "pointment of persons of adverse poli-" extraordinary and unparalleled. The "tical opinions to vacant places and" Tories-if Lord Grey will see and "Government patronage, have been no- "believe-are put hors de combat. In "toriously and justly subjects of public" the reformed House of Commons they complaint against the present admi-" will rank as a miserable faction. The "nistration; especially when the re- "House of Lords must conform to the formers have observed no great indis-"representation of the will of the peoposition to advance the relations and " ple, or a collision' fatal to the arispersonal adherents of Ministers to lu- "tocracy, must sooner or later occur. "crative official and permanent situa-" And what is the strength of the 'Whig "tions. The Tory Lord Lieutenants" party'? There is no such political com"have been allowed to reign dominant" bination of men, in the former ac"in their several provinces, and undis- {“ ceptance of the phrase. Nay, the turbedly to nominate, for two years, very party' is dependent for its being "Conservatives to every magisterial on the life of Lord Grey. No other "and municipal office. Tory bishops" public man alive, or to be, can rally "have been generously and simply in-"the forces of the party, or give them "vested with the deputation of dispos- "effect and power. The Whigs will die "ing of the Lord Chancellor's church" a natural death, and attend as mourn"preferment most locally offensive to ers the remains of schedule B, when "the reformers. The consequences of "the final measure' shall have been "this miserable and mistaken policy consummated. Indeed Lord Grey "have been sorely felt by the country, "could not form, in 1830, a' Whig "and was injuriously visited on the li- "administration. His Cabinet is com"beral candidates at the recent general posed of various political allies; and "election. Nearly two hundred of the infinite is his merit, and happy the "members of the late Parliament ho-" juncture of political circumstances, "nestly and opportunely remonstrated" which enabled him, supported by the "with a leading member of the admi- people, to dethrone the boroughmon"nistration against this execrable poli-"gers. But the sagacity of Lord Grey "tical suicide of the Whigs, in a pri- must teach him that a juste-milieu ad"vate but subscribed remonstrance "ministration of the Government of this "The palpable policy of Lord Grey" country cannot be long or successfully "is to confide in public opinion, "maintained. His Reform Acts are in"and to be guided by its power 66 struments in the hands of the people, "and influence; that basis is the which the people will use effectively, only foundation of his Cabinet. A "for the avowed and determined object "temporising policy, and a cunning "of effecting a thorough reformation in "consultation of the art of govern- the administration of public affairs. "ment' of his enemies, may meet prePractical reforms in every department "sent party emergencies; but assuredly "of' church and state'-decided and li

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beral policy in the promotion of active "of his royal favour upon the Right and enlightened men-can alone give "Hon. Charles Manners Sutton, for permanency to the Cabinet of Lord" his eminent services in the six Par"Grey, or any other class or coalition" liaments during which he has dis"of party politicians. A new and rapid charged the duties of Speaker of "formation of public character will"this House,' &c. On the following "take place, and the old sets of place-" day Lord Althorp reported his Mamen and office-hunters will be anni-" jesty's answer to the address, "hilated. A juste-milieu House of Com-" his Majesty is desirous, in complimóns may temporarily oppose a drag- ance with the wishes of his faithful "chain to the popular movement; but, "Commons, to confer upon the said. as assuredly as knowledge is power,' Right Hon. Charles Manners Sutton “so sure will the people, through the "some signal mark of his royal fa"breach recently effected in the citadel "vour; but as the same cannot be "of the boroughmongers, storm the "" effectually granted and secured with"fortress of corruption. We have made" out the concurrence of Parliament, "these preliminary observations in re- "his Majesty recommends to the "lation to the re-appointment of Mr." House of Commons the adoption of "Manners Sutton to the speakership of "such measures as may be necessary "the reformed Parliament. Some of" for the accomplishment of this purour liberal contemporaries—no doubt" pose.' A grant of 4,000l. per annum properly instructed-are bravely de- was therefore subsequently agreed fending the intention of this most ex- by the House of Commons, as a life "traordinary and disgusting re-appoint-" pension to the Speaker on his seces"ment of a Tory President of the new "sion from the chair, with the reversion. "House of Commons. We say, dis-" of 3,000l. a year to his heir male. Lord gusting, because it is a monstrous" Grey, unadvisedly we think, as we "violation of the constitution that a "have before stated, has refused the "British Cabinet should be pre-arrang-" ex-Speaker that 'signal mark of royal ❝ing the appointment of the Speaker of "favour,'-a peerage; which, under a British reformed Parliament, and a" all circumstances, is not the right, press announcing the selection of the" but the claim of Mr. Manners Sutton, “individual for that responsible elective" and which would have removed Mor“office, one calendar month before even "decai from the King's gate. The ex"the members of the legislature have" Speaker naturally declines to sink "met together! We cannot, and will" into political insignificance. Those "6 not, believe these malicious reports. "who are feared are respected. He They are doubtless, the spawn of" retires from Scarborough, and is put "the Dutch fabrications of the Tories," forward for the Tory high-church "created to take the place of the last ex-" representation of the University of ploded lies of the Conservatives. Now" Cambridge, in opposition to, and "what are the facts connected with the "exclusion of, a Whig candidate! "retirement of Mr. Manners Sutton?" The Conservatives cannot afford to "Unquestionably, the Ministry, at the" throw away trump cards; and im"end of the last session, intended that "the ex-Speaker should close his pre"sidential career. Lord Althorp, the "leader of the House of Commons, the " acknowledged representative of the" Mr. Manners Sutton in opposition to "Cabinet, on the voluntary announce-" Government for the speakership of ment by the Speaker of his official re- "the reformed Parliament. The Mi"tirement, proposed on the 30. July, "nistry are charged by rumour with "that an humble address to his Ma-" usurping the prerogative of the House "jesty, that he will be graciously "of Commons, in the nomination of the. 46.4 pleased to confer some signal mark" Speaker; and after their own Aberaf

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"candidate for the chair has canvassed" We do concur in the universal meed "members for the office-and Mr. C." of praise to Mr. Manners Sutton, "Wynne has again hoisted his signals; as the Speaker of the unreformreport states that the Ministers ap- "ed Parliaments, when Lord Cas"plied to Mr. Manners Sutton to know" tlereagh and Mr. Canning led the "his intentions, and fell into the trap of" House of Commons. But Lord "undertaking to support him from" Grey will never satisfy the country― "fear! This is the plain unvarnished" will never content the members really "narrative of facts, as currently report-" representing any large constituency"ed by the Tories and admitted by the " that a rank Tory is a proper president "friends of Ministers. The Times an- "of the new Parliament; or that the "nounced last week, that it was set-" mode of his re-appointment is any "tled that the ex-Speaker is to resume "credit or strength to a liberal admi"his duties. The Court Journal inti- "nistration. The temporary saving of "mates the same strange fact as fol-" 4,000l. a-year will not compensate the "lows:"nation for the evils of a Tory Speaker. "All is definitely settled for the " It is penny wise and pound foolish,' "Speaker's continuance in office; and " to use a homely English proverb. The we learn with pleasure that letters of" whole business and machinery of "the most flattering description have legislation in the Houses of Parlia"been addressed to the honourable" ment require amendment. Many "Gentleman on the subject by his" larger sums may be saved, and much "additional money's worth' secured, Majesty's Ministers.' "The Sunday organ of the ultra-" through the agency of a Speaker re"Tories, John Bull, chuckles and glo-" presenting the spirit of the times. "rifies itself on the capital success of" The incumbent of the chair of the "the ruse; and asserts on 'credible" House of Commons has the power of 66 authority, that Ministers have writ-" much good and evil.' The associ"ten in the person of Lord Althorp, a "ations of Mr. Manners Sutton are with 66 6 crawling solicitation, that Mr. Man-" the system.' He is, in fact, 'part and ners Sutton would be pleased again" parcel' of it. Is it probable that Mr. "to take upon himself the fatigues of" Manners Sutton will promote expe"the speakership — by "dient and necessary reforms in all the 66 augur that the noble Lord will pro- departments of the House? Will he 66 6 pose Mr. Sutton himself.' John Bull" bestow the patronage of the office"further insinuates that the peerage "small as it may be, but nevertheless 66 was refused the ex-Speaker lest he" important-upon Tories or Liberals? "should attain the Premiership, or rival" But the most lamentable and injurious 66 Lord Grey in the Upper House—a consequence of his re-appointment ·66 contemptible absurdity; but we should" would unquestionably be the success "not marvel if the Tories, buoyed up with" of Tory plots; it would act as a pre"the success of their stratagems and "mium on conservative intrigue. We "intrigues, should next attempt that" cannot suspect Ministers of such pusil"enterprise. The consequence of this" lanimity or folly. The speakership is "morbid Ministerial policy is now ap- an office of great responsibility, and in "parent. Lord Grey's Cabinet must" the tenure of friends or enemies of an "abandon such temporising prudery-" administration is highly important. such overmuch nicety in conduct.'" To place it in the hands of a back"The mischief is now justified by the" bone Tory would be about as silly as pretended aptitude of Mr. Manners" if Marshal Gerard had selected a "Sutton for the office; and our stric-"Dutchman to be chief engineer of the tures are pronounced illiberal and " siege of Antwerp. Would the Duke of " groundless, because all parties ad-" Wellington, if Prime Minister, now "mitted the appropriate performance" appoint either Mr. Abercrombie or "of the ex-Speaker of his functions." Mr. Littleton Speaker? He is too

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