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TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The French translation of W.T.H. has already appeared
in The Sun. The verses are declined, with thanks.
rphirns are n( t vet published, thouo'h
a few of them have found their way into tee public
papers.
VT regret that the account from King's Lynn, with
which we were favoured, did not reach us till we had
published an outline of the meeting from the Norwich
Mercury.

LONDON:
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1841.

The Tory Journals now unite in saying, and
the Spectator echoes their assertion, that Sir
ROBERT is to be a true and active Prime Minis-

ter. That he may be the more at liberty to ex-
ercise a complete surveillance over every part of
the Government, and keep in his own hands all

the clues to an imperial policy which extends
over half the globe, he_has separated the offices
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and First
lord of the Treasury, which have been usually
held in conjunction when the latter has been held
by a Commoner. He is to play the lofty part of
a PITT Or CHATHAM, Or a WALPOLE, and there-
fore he consigns the drudgery of the finances to
Mr. GOULBURN. His nomination to office is to
be considered as a retrocession from a species of
democratic or republican Ministry to a real
Royal Administration, of which he is to be the
chief. The power of Government, it is averred by
the Spectator, has been transferred by the consti-

tuencies, not by the QUEEN, to Sir RO- BERT PEEL,
and no other. Her MAJESTY has, therefore, only
one master, for all the other Ministers are little
better than Sir ROBERT PEEL'S clerks or ser-
vants. All the constituencies, it is said, have
cried out for PEEL. Away with all others, and
give us PEEL ! PEEL will we have, and PEEL is
therefbre the great Commoner-King of our day,
the sole master of the QUEEN and the Govern-

ment.
The Tories and the Spectator exult at this ;
we cannot. What, is there only one man in the
nation capable of administering its affairs, and
he little better than a red•tapist? Admitting
that the constituencies would have none other
than PEEL,
that they voted for PEEL, what is
there hi his conduct to justify their choice ? He
has been an excellent party leader, but what has
he done for the constituencies and the country?
He has laboured incessantly in opposition to
strengthen the Tories; in what way has he
served the public ? Has he in opposition forced
the Ministers to be economical? Has he kept
them from encroaching on the public liberties?
and has he extended the privileges of the people ?
No, he has not. He has encouraged extrava-
gance. He has aimed at lessening the public li-
berties, and at preventing the eilinisterg from
enlarging them. He haskept no tyranny in check,
but whenever the Ministers sought in any way to
be tyrannical, Sir ROBERT PEEL patted them on
the back. lie has been instrumental in preserv-
ing all kinds of abuses. For this the constitu-
encies have rewarded him by bestowing on him
a mastership over the first servant of a free
people. That is less dishonourable to Sir RO-
BERT PEEL than to the constituencies.
In opposition he was always the friend of
aristocracy and not of the people. He belonged
to the party of the House of Lords. He always
stretched forth his hand to shield the Church.
All its abuses found in him an advocate. lie
always was on the side of the Whigs when they
were in the wrong. He was for restricting the
franchise in Ireland, and he resisted all measures
for extending it in England. His policy was to
uphold our institutions unaltered and wire-
proved and as the Whigs approved of our in-
stitutions he assailed them with the weapons
they put into his hands. When they practically

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