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mallet bop t Oiag .13081•1 Ise biopght simint,mbillier .ee
by county or 0 elections ; it nittosfled Bale idiether '
the Melltherildtll'place, or soother held It for ilm—
, the office was l k e—the manse attention Si tbs Tres'-
eery in tie , .. yoking the same devotion in yoki I. the
usit
House at lideht people had to suffer the same burdens,
i whether the placessen was out of the Rouse onto it. But
this argument was listened to in 1780. Placeraten bad .1-
.ready been excluded by the statute of All..—sthat of
George I. excleded many more, and all peasioaers without
distinction. The Place Bill of Geo. If. lopped off several,
and yet no man pretended to use is 1780 that enough had
bees hone by Lord Carteret in 1741, became his Lordship
then reported that there were 200 platinum la the Howe.
Stich arguments would have availed Gelb* ; the answer
would how been that they most have recourse to mate other
remedy if that were romidered dangerous—but mote plow-
men mutt be excluded. The whole argument was inevi-
table sod coaclusive beyou4 me .in regard to these
times, only that the peisciple admitted a far more powerful
remedy would be required. He came now to the last pro-
bable argument to be opposed to him—lbw right working of
the system. " True," it would be said, "we tawnot deuy,
we cannot prevent the increase of the establisbeetala I bet
there is as myth practical liberty in the eoustiy, as much
purity in Parliament, as formerly." He thOlairin this mo at.
gement, if he ',hewed that the dependance of the people
on the Inatome of the Crown was already toe winch is the
Americas war. Bat the argument was nothing, as they
had lived to witness the conduct of subsequent Parliaments,
under the stew system. He acknowledged one groeral agree-
ment in this all, that whomsoever the King chose for Mi-
nister, the Howie •oifuruily supported him, because he was
Minister, nod not front any other cossideration. He would
maintain It as broadly as he hod stated it. He meant to may,
that so great was that influence on the Hoene, and through the
country, any one whom the Crown might have named would,
in the last five or sic Peritoneal*, have been supported by
the majority of that Hinsue. He nabd this with only two
qualificatious—that the Minister should be chosen front the
usual classes, and chose to rink bus office on the measure he
proposed. He would begin with the last division before Mr.
Pitt left office in 1801, which was attended by his uses! M-
I
iimphant majority of 245 (His Hon. Friend invited him to be-
' gin sith later times—he would come at them by.and by). Mr.
Pitt was followed by 4 In I, and seldom divided in less force.
There were 63 out of3oo who opposed him. " Aye, but then,"
it was said, " think of his great hereditary name—his splen-
did talents—his uninspeached personal character, and his
vast popularity is the country." But he event out and was
siicceeiled by soother Pinot. Minister, who differed from
him in one little particular, which the people might 'vainly •
imagine to be the least ; it proved howiver to be the
grealeit. He was the King's Chief Minister. Whether
from the p slitical affectiou the House bore him, nr that spit.
rit of optimism which all men have more or less for the Go-
vernment they live under, certain it was, that Mr Asiding.on
noreerdsd not oily to Mr. Pict's pace in the Cabinet, but '
t.i his conlidesee and an pport in the Howse Unhappily,th,t
' which all men valued least, tinned out to be his best, if not
bis only, but still a very sufficient recommendation. The first
trial of strength between Mr. Pitt and Mr. Addington, who
were for the Arid time now twain, soon came us. The House
saw the schism between the ex-Miniater utilities for the time
being, and before it could runeeiii,iitly resolve, was pushed
rather indelicately to the test. "Come, said Mr. Pit., .4 4, i
us have no speeches, no tirades, ell blame in the House nor
loud praises dine out of doors—come to the vote, let me see
what you will do, after fuVowiejr me for 20 long years and
more, white 1 had the good things of once at my disposal,
and you were all gratitude and fervency." They did come
to the vote. He grieved to say it. As main as 373 not of
400, who were in the House, did by their votes declare that
they preferred Mr Addington to Mr. Pitt. His valuable
name, his personal virtue*, addrems ..d PoPoletilY—the
fame uf his greet anre.lry, propelled within half a citatory,
by himself for a rooter of a tesiterythe lore of admiring
friends, the gratitude of placernen crested by him, the
vinirsetnes replenished by bilk, the Aldermen of pest
cities, Kniehis of shires and representatives of rotten
boroughs—all %hoot he bad swayed over, mad witness-
ed their devotion to him, expressed in every possible way,
from the highest to the t, from awn as elevated as
Mr. Foe down to the gentleman (he ironic! not Came him)
who brill up a bank note in the House—all forsook him, and
seceded at one*. Mr. Addington's high qoaltfieatiosi• sod
great personal virtues—Mr. Addiagton's' undiminished and
m uch- eavied popularity—Mr Addington's high sneestry,great
attainments, entirely overmatched (on the fiat thy i hat Ise led
up
the King's Govenament in the warfare of Paitisuiren)
the gratitude and all the great and hoisourable influence of '
Mr. Pitt's former life sad service,. Out of all who had sup.
ported him only 56 remained fkithful among the fuithlers ;
hut even they fell off to a considerable amount us the next
division. Mr. Addington's administration had a more severe
trial to undergo. It was assailed at the a.m. juncture by
Lord Grenville and his friends. Mr. Pitt •nil his triends, Mr.
Fox sod his friends, against all these, however, Mr. Addistg.
ton a Mintiest to make • stood fir nearly a year. A change
was at lost effected—but how? Toe greater cumber of
Mr. Adilingtoit's ministry were friends of Me. Pitt (the
Noble Lord opposite for rote). These sod Mr. Put un-
derstood welt other pot city well; but so Ono could doubt
that if Mr. Pitt's fiends would hove staid and Mr. Addington
had resolved 10 stead by hisS igo its hie Sovereign would
have stood by him, that Mr Addington weight host' bees
M inn'. r. The Admimistrstion formed in 1802 was nut din.
solved till 1806. Tu some of those in opposition to Mr.
Pitt there were phrases used little short of charging them
with rebellion ; w'y., one orator did actually gut so far as
• to talk of Mr. Fox having standee' the standard at
rebellion. Au event happened, however, about 1836
which threw a light en the senses of the House, and wipe.
eially Mr. Putt and Colonel Petry. This event wee no
other Una Mr. Fox temente into office. The Howe felt •
wouderful elmege hisiantly wrought upon. Mr. Fox, also
wall cluiNird with rebellious before, once called to the Minis-
try by his Sovereign, was supposed to he the most constite.
throat sir statesineu. They waited with coition—they trust-
ed nothing—hut as soon as they found that he was ready
advertised iu the Gazelle, when the matter rolls, be au
longer doubted that he had his &mere igu's support, then
came also shat corietsiire support of the How... On the 3d
Match that same House which had branded him with the
change of rebellion, no longer withheld their confidence.
Tin que•t lois oral rengt h was not at lest tried; but • t length in
, almost six weeks lifter he had been appointed, the trial came.
He never saw • stronger case shoo was embodied in the re-
solo iou which related to the appointeneut of Lord Client:to-
rough : sever was the wesksiess of those out of office, or
the strength of those in more maosfeet. The Iluum took
time, for it was an award of much forethought, and indeed
thought both before and after, always proportioning its dis-
taste 61 the do istom of lime men are Ou• Of pore.. the most
cousti to t lanai and biodiog obedience to those who hold. The
question was du termined, through a very simile coincidence,
by the same majority that Mr. Pitt enjoyed. Mr. Pitt
had divided 245 to 63. There wese 222 in the majority
on this divisis•, though the Opposition trona were mar-
shalled and fought under Mr. Pill, and yet, with all the ad-
vantages of disciplire Wig established in their faroor, they
only mastered sixty.five on that steno( and pinching test
questiow, which was of the last importauee, as it was held to
affect the astral administration of justice. But if soy ob-
jection could be urged to his proposition offer Ibis he
should be glad to hear it. Thus much for • Tory Portia.
mein, summoned under the proper 'inspires of a Tory
chief. He came now to consider how it fired onto a Par.
'lament under Whig auspices The enteral Owls), took place
in A tatiusi, 1 008. That uperition which before, mid in
the last century, used to be called purging, was effected,
sod 180 new members were returued. It would be expected
that this Hamm redeemed the trseisressinna of the past; but
indeed it did rather worse, and itself greater discredit than
lbw former, its illustrious predecessor. A great difference of
opinion was knows. to prevail between Ministers mid the
Opposition. 1111111 difference was openly and hook', stated
by as Hon. Member whom he had then in his eye. On the
adders* to the throne au amendment was moved, chicly re•
biting to foreign affairs. The party, aware of the st.eugth
of M i Osiers, would nut show their own weakness on a division.
Tile next subject was the misty estimate', ionaprising Mr.
Wyedissm's skew military phut: still nu di•ision. Then cause
on the subject of the Outten iu Council, though Mr. Perces
eel's motion, but without a division. It was now 1807, and
Sir S. Bustin; brought in his first Bill fur she amelioration