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could not be found.—(Loud cheers and laughter.) He
trusted that the Right Hon. Baronet would show himsel f
entitled to the support of the Radical party, although he
doubted it.—(Cheers.) He expected there would be but
little difference manifested in the management of public
affairs by the two parties contending for power.
"Strange such a difference should be
'Twixt tweedle dum and tweedle dee."
He believed that until the House of Commons should
be differently organized, the people would not find a
doctor to their liking. The House did not represent
the people of the country. The millions who were
imploring their aid were not represented in that House.
Parties in that House represented their own interest, and
that they well understood that, no one could deny.—
In such a state of things, it was impossible to expect that
any proper remedy could be applied. Palliative expedients
would be resorted to, and they would loose the opportu-
nity of performing the only cure—a radical one. The
Address, for which he felt compelled to vote, because he
liked it better than the amendment, said the revenue ought
to be increased. Now his opinion was that the expenditure
ought to be diminished; it was extravagant to a degree of
folly ; and the extravagance in every public department,
while the people were borne down to the earth by distress,
was monstrous,-inhuman, and disgusting.—(Cheers.) The
Crown itself was costly. Now was the Crown main-
tained for the benefit of the people or of a party?—
(Cheers.) He felt himself compelled to ask that ques-
tion after the language held by the Hon. Member for
Manchester, that the Ministers were acting in opposition
to law and the Constitution by remaining in office ; and
after the language which they had just heard from the
Hon. Member for the University of Cambridge, who had
stated that the Ministers had been condemned in the
last House of Parliament, and stood there for judgment,
so that that House was to condemn without having
heard the evidence.—(Cries of " No, no." Was that
denied ? Were they not called on to pass judgment--
they, a new House of Parliament, having nothing in
common with the old one?—(Cheers.) For -himself, he
had always Oleen an advocate for monarchy, but it ap-
peared to him that the mode of action adopted by Hen-
Gentlemen opposite was in defiance of the monarchical
principle. Gentlemen opposite had taunted them with
being anarchists, republicans, and haters of monarchy
He would tell those Hon. Gentlemen that they were de-
ceived—that they were entirely mistaken as to the views
which were entertained by the constitutional
Radical
party in this country.—(Laughter from the Tory
benches.) Surely they would give him credit for stating
that which he believed to be true. He gave them credit
for sincerity, and he claimed the like credit for himself.
He could state that the constitutional Radical party
in this country was as strenuously and conscientiously
attached to the Monarchy as any Gentleman in that
House. It was attached also to the Church of England
~,„!
it would sacrifice any institution rather than see the
Church sacrificed.—(Hear, hear.) " Our desire," 55"-
the Hon. Member, " is exactly the same as yours, t
maintain our institutions, but we adopt a different node
of maintaining them.—(Laughter.) You attempt to
maintain our institutions by the few ruling the 111aq--
we attempt to maintain them by the many ruling
the few. Our object is to strengthen these insti-
tutions by surrounding them with the affection, love,
and regard of the people, and we dread your acting in
defiance of the people, because it would be fraught with
danger."—(Loud cheers.) Now what had passed en
that occasion ? The Queen, in the exercise of her un-
doubted prerogative, had discharged the late Parliament,
and a new one had been returned. Whwere they to
assume, without a single vote, that Ministers had lost
the confidence of the House ? It was unpleasant, ha
knew, to hear these remarks.—(Hear, hear.) lie was
desirous only of stating the facts, without giving
offence to any party. The Queen had made. a speech to
the new 'Parliament. What was the answer returned?
That they would not receive the Speech as from the pre"
sent Ministers. Had a Radical pursued such a course
he would have been told that he was treating the (Vett
with personal disrespect, that he was acting in defiance of
the wishes of the Sovereign, and thereby endangering
the Monarchy. When the Right Hon. Baronet met the
Parliament in 1834 he acknowledged that there R' _
hat
overwhelming majority against him, and with
knowledge he met the Parliament. But did the noru
at once say that they would not give him a trial, teu_
they send back the insolent answer, " You have -sent
Minister here in whom we have no confidence ; take him
back again."—(Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Baronet
on that occasion said he felt it to be his first and para
aosae
mount duty to maintain the post which had been
e.con-
fided to him, which he did not seek, but could not d
cline, " and," said the Right Hon. Baronet, " I call upon
you not to condemn before you have heard—(llear,from the
Ministerial Benches)—to listen to all the measures
shall propose; to amend them if they shall be defective,
to extend them, if they fall short of your expectations,
but at least to give me the opportunity of presentingo
them, that you yourselves may correct and dispose
them."—(Hear, hear.) Now that was the precept; but.
Y
what was the example ? The Right Hon. Baronet con-
tinued in office for three months longer, and the cir-
cumstances which attended his continuance presented°
very striking contrast to what was now passing.—(lV,
hear.) Was it meet, was it prudent, that an immense
on_,_
of Members should come into the House pledged to
_lt
against the Ministry, and against the wishes of the Crgwll'
(Ironical cries of " Hear, hear" from the Tory benches.)
Was this holding out to the country that kind of mo-
nition which it was desirable to communicate to a large
and fickle people like the English ? Was it prudent
not to give the Ministry an opportunity of bringing for-
ward their measures ?—(Bear, hear--. and laughter.)
very. much amused, but ho
could clearly perceive that the laugh was not an ao-ree-
ble one. There was a very unpleasant feeling lurking
beneath the smiling face---.(Hear, hear,. from the Mi-
nisterial benches)—and he did not believe that •
when the Honourable Baronet came to reflect ,
deeply, upon what he- had been forced to do by the •
eager expectants of place and office, his own mind would
suggest a complete and ample justification of that bourse.
The difficulties of the present position of affairs were
great. The errors which the Ministers had committed
were numerous and enormous.—(Laughter from the
Opposition benches.) He (Mr. Wakley) had had an
opportunity of witnessing their conduct, and knew what
a golden opportunity they had lost of serving therr coun-
try. They would not listen to his (Mr.W.'s) advice. He
had prescribed without a fee in 1837.—(Great laughter.)
He did not wait for a fee, for he considered that he was
fairly called in to the consultation when his constituents
had sent him to Parliament,—(Hear, hear.) He barely •
prescribed three small powders. The Right Honourable
Baronet had got 326 pills by his side.—(Laughter.) He
(Mr. Wakley s) medicine would have rendered the
Right Honourable Baronet great service—it was simple
and appropriate—(Renewed laughter)—but he feared
that the medicine which he had then in his pea
session, and which he would be compelled to swallow,
would very soon remove him from the seat he occupied.
—(Long continued laughter.) He wished the Noble
Lord (J. Russell) well out of his difficulties, the more
especially as he was now one of tho metropolitan dema-
gogues.—(Laughter from the Opposition.) Well, it
seemed that there was to be a change in the Government
—that they were to have new parties in power. If the
Right Hon. Baronet came into power, he should have no
factious opposition from him (Mr. Wakley). As an
humble individual he would give his host consideration
to every measure which he should submit to the House,
and if he proposed a good measure, it should have
as cordial, as warm, and as hearty
a support from him as
though it came from the sincerest Radical Reformer in
the kingdom.—(Hear, hear, from the Opposition.) The
Right Hon. Baronet had undoubted capacity—was a man
of vast ability. He (Mr. W.) knew more of the Right
Hon. Baronet's ability than some men in the House, for
he had made a phrenological survey 41: his head
laughter.) The Right Hon. Gentleman possessed the
intellectual power which was so essential in the minister
. (Loud
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of a great country. If he exercised his own judgment
without control—(Hear, hear, from the Liberal Benches)
—entirely free from the misrepresentations which might
be addressed to him,—from the instigations.whieh might
be offered to him—he would render enormous benefit to
his country. It was in his power, and God grant that it
might be exercised ; it was his (Mr. W's.)
most earnest
desire. But if the Right Honourable Bennet should
yield to mischievous advisers, and should ncs exercise
those abilities with which he was endowed, he (Mr.
Wakley) would be ready to form one of a national
party whose energies would be exerted for the
best interest of the people. The wars in which
this country had been engaged :had entailed upon its an
enormous debt. It was not great or magnanimous
hand hand down such a debt to posterity. The Govern
unless we were engaged in continuenntryl
would
of England declared, forty or fifty years since,
haft
their estates would be sacrificed, that thedee
still possessed
country had not been invaded, amolotoi y_
desolate. This
how been con-
be invaded, and they themselves lore
ouprietors to do justice t
their estates. But a debt f 500,0 t
0; 00
the industry of de
traeted, which was to be paid
Was. there
fromon• Baronet should cam
Bat supposing the Right if
ptheoospelew. lionev4
colleaguesie into
P7such a debt.—(lle„,.°N
between his
the Right, Hon. Gentleman the
aesriteedsuttffhoeerblianengded
and the Right Hon
Member for North
Member for Dorchester, . Baronet
Itithe
of finance, or between the Right on the question
aonfficaeg'reewmheontwere
Baronet and the
to the
Lancashire relative. government of. Ireland?
I not be sensible to what w • •
They con as passing
Sister Noble Lord
Kingdom. There was a demand
country for
in thatrepeal of the Union.
was sorry that such He
Amore disastrous
made, A event could not take place.
Still he wished to know what course the Right Hoe.
Baronet would pursue. What was the languao of four
distinguished statesmen when the Catholic Relief
Bill was before the House? It should be remem-
bered that to obtain that Bill 300,000 voters were
disfranchised. The four statesmen to whom lie referred
were the Duke of W Lord
e ngton,Lyndhurst 'the Right
Hon.
.Baronet opposite, and the Noble Lord 9
the Member
for North Lancashire. The language of the Duke of Wel-
lington on the second reading of the Bill was as
lo:lows:—" There is no doubt that after this mea-
sure has been adopted the Roman Catholics can
have no separate interests as a separate sect, for I
mm sure neither this House nor the other Houso
of Parliament will be disposed to look either
upon Roman Catholics or on anything which
concerns Ireland with eny other feelings than
those with which they regard England and Scotland.
The Hon. Member then read the statements of Lord
Lyndhurst, Sir R. Peel, and Lord J. Russell, and ob-
served that he hoped what he had referred to would be
useful to the Right Hon. Baronet in forming his new
Ministry.—(Hear, hear, hear.) He would now trouble
the House with a few remarks with reference to what had
fallen from. the Hon. Member for Bath. That Hon.
Member had praised, with more consistency than discre-
tion, the Poor-law Amendment Act.—(Bear, hear.)
Now he (Mr. Wakley) with consistency, ard, he
hoped, with discretion, designated that measure as
most objectionable, and he believed that it was more
obnoxious to the kindly feelings of the people than aaY
law that had been enacted by Parliament. He (Mr.

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