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London, England, 1830-11-17 00:00:00

the House, without examination, without a state-
meat-or, at least, a clear statement—to vote what-
ever sums. they- proposed." We are as anxious a,
;tit the It iend4 of a Constitutional Monarchy can he
+hat the fends,appropriated to the Royal establi-h•
ment should he on a scale commensurate with the
dignity and grandeur of a great nation. But the
Crown ig degraded when any set of Ministers make
it a over for their own venal patronage and cor-
rupt profusion. The Ministers, however, in the
confidence of, having a House .of Commons
blindly subservient to the Executive authority as
Some farmer arses have been, persisted in - re-
Wing a Select Committee, and the result ha.,
been their signal overthrow and precipitate re-
signation. It would be inconsistent in'us to express
any thing like regret for this event, having Mt it
our duty, in the independent exercise of our judgs
inent rro publie_affairs, to censure most of -their
measures ; iu doing so, we predicted some of the
consequences. of heir policy under which the coun-
try at present suffers. Whoever will look back to
our pages last Session will find that, when Minis-
ters denied the existence of public distress, and their
"fawning parasites" in Parliament and the Press
made the most 'gronndless assertions of general pun:-
perity, and indulged iii heartless Sneers and flippant
merriment at the- great. and increasing misery of the
industrious population, we warned Qovernment no;
to negket the great and pressing duty of inquiring
into the causes of the distress of the people; but our
advice. was unheeded. They persisted in their
thoughtless course, and ceased not until they made
manifest to the whole world their incapacity to go-
vent the affairs of a great empire. There is one in-
dividual of the late Ministry whose fall in public
opinion we regret, and that is the Doke of 'Welling-
ton—because, in his military career, be rendered the
most splendid and memorable services t o his country.
It is true that lie has received the most liberal remu-

Iteration from a grateful people in riches and honour.;
lavished upon him in honoursble profusion.' It
is because we wished the laurels which he won
on the field of military, glory to remain notarni-hed
that we peculiarly regret his having ever undertaken
the task of civil government, for which neither na-
ture nor education h;o1 qualified him. It is the
more extraordinary that he should have done so,
after having, in his place in Parliament, not long
before, evinced an accurate judgment, by pro-
nouncing on his own incapacity to guide the helm
of the State. The first error he committed was to
be tempted to sully •a fame which was splendid
enough for the ambition of any mau, by starting from
the honoured repose of the successful warrior into
the perilous activity of the Statesman • and the next
was his selecting a Cabinet only remarkable for their
submissiveness and incapacity. If he retires alto-
gether from the fatigues and responsibility of power,
we trust the public odium which the attack on the
liberty of the Press—the neglect of the distresses of
the people—the falsification of the pledges of re-
trenchment and economy, and other nets of his Go-
vernment, whether of commission or omission, ex-
cited
against him, will disappear with the•circum-
stances out of which it arose, and that his distin-
guished name will once more be associated with the
respect and admiration of his country.—Morn. Her.
The effect of the boasted patty triumph over
Ministers, obtained by the united (we might say
unnatural) efforts of all the discordant elements of
Opposition, in the House of Commons, on Monday
night, has proved such as was generally and natu-
rally anticipated. The whole of the Members of
the Administration have in consequence resigned;
and the nation is thus to be deprived (may we be
permitted to hope, for a time only) of the services of
a set of honest Statesmen, to whom in better times
an unfeigned tribute of national gratitude would
have been rendered—whose abilities are alike ditO.

tinguished and acknowledged—whose integrity is
inflexible-,-whose wisdom (with the lamented ex-
ception of one land act, and that imposed upon them
by their opponents), has forcibly shone forth
to the world—and the unparalleled deeds of
whose Chief have shed an unfurling lustre upon
his own fame and an eternal glory upon the
country. Ilow deeply this unfortunate event is
deplored by us, we need scarcely express—that
its effects may not prove fatal to the best inte-
rests of the State, is our most ardent prayer.
Ministers hare fallen, but they have fallen with
honour, in the faithful performance of their duty to
their King and country ; and the particular prin-
ciples, to the advocacy of which they owe their de.
feat, are precisely those upon which all good and
wise Statesmen have hitherto made their stand, and
resolutely determined to maintain. They have
sought no vulgar applause by meanly and injuriously
departing from the obvious path of State safety;--
the public, when the moment of delusion shall have
passed, will do justice to the purity of their motives,
and render homage to those sound principles, a due
observance of which can alone permanently ensure
the salvathin of the country. The dissolution of the
Administration was formally announced to the two
fions'es of, Parliament last evening by his Grace of

Wellington and Sir Robert Peel,rinti the common'.

cation was evidently received with feelings of re-
gret. That the vote of the House of Common's,
which immediately preceded this catastrophe, affords
a sufficient explanation of it, we are not inclined to
think. For this explanation we are compelled to
look further back ; to the proceedings of the last
Parliament subsequent to the decision of the Ca-
tholic question, and to the conscientious but mis-
taken abstinence of his Majesty's Ministers from
any exercise of their mfluetiee during the late ge-
neral election. The equipoise of strength on the
part of Ministers and their opponents, exhibited
upon various occasions during the last Session of
Parliament, in the House of Commons, even upon
questions of no great or paramount importance, pro-
duced great delay and embarrassment in the progress
of the public business, and could not fail to have
other effects still more injurious—that of unsettling
the minds of the community, of encouraging the
projectors of innovation of every kind, of degrading
the Hemp and enfeebling the influence of authority
in popular estimation. The hope was, howeVer,
chtnished by the loyal and patriotic, that the general
election would put an end to a state of affairs so in-
convenient and mischievous, and that the Ministers
of the King would be enabled to show themselves in
thee new Parliament in the possession of that ascen-
dancy without which no Ministers, however estimable
for their talents or their virtue, can conduct the public
affairs with satisfaction and honour to themselves, o •
I.with any prospect of advantage to the country. The
division of Monday night afforded evidence more
than enflicieet to prove that this hope had not been
realized, Why it was disappointed it would now
perhaps be vain to inquire, nor is the inquiry neces-
sary for those who observed during the last election
how completely the influence of Ciovernment was
suspended, while every influence hostile to Govern,
went was in the highest state of activity and ex-
ertion. The flovernment of the Duke of Welliegton
watt not true to itself. It is accordingly the victim
of a too strict practical %Whimper to those liberal
principles and constitutional maxims Which its op-
ponents have been content merely to profess, The
Duke of Wellington and his colleagues have
done themselves honour by retiring as they have
dope, in Ponseptence of the adverse vote of the
House of Commons, They might have struggled
on in the toils of office. They might have dragged
through another weary Session of degrading and
unprofitable labour. Bot they have felt, ae every
honest Britisb Minister must feel, that it was their
duty to resign when they could no longer hope to
impart a steady itepulse to the progress of bene-
fiend legislation, or to etivtain the constitutional
influence of the Crown by any other than partial,
preeerions,orequivocal triumphs over its persevering
asitaiianta, We deeply lament the necessity for thew
resignation, not ati much indeed on account of 'the
confidence; respect, and alreption we have felt, and
eentissue to feel, towards the illinerioue f'repaier end
several of his colleagues, as because we foresee 00
the present change is only the commencement of. a
long period of confusion and uncertainty ; of an
indefinite series of Ministerial Owlet, If there