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London, England, 1832-05-31 00:00:00

th:t involve the political happiness or misery of
millions; but as to the individual himself, scp.i
rate from the policy of which he is the represen-
tative, we never bestowed a thought upon him
It is only his office that gives him importance it,
our eyes, and if he were, to-morrow, under the
influence of the better genius of England, to
descend from that important station, which, in
connexion with a ministry professing liberal prin-
ciples, he ought never to have been allowed io
occupy, we would willingly forget, if the follies
of the protocol negotiations—the destruction of
Poland—the miseries of Greece, and all the other
evils that the confirmed ascendency of Russian
barbarism has inflicted upon Europe, could al-
low us to forget, that such a man ever existed.
An Evening Paper, the Globe, which, in
doing the work of its masters, has been
for some time past "nibbling" at us, be-
cause we are as independent now as we
were when the same Globe was the sycophantic
supporter of the Duke of Wellington's Admi-
nistration, and " shook its head" with the pon.
derous gravity of Lord Burleigh in the farce,
at all Whig politicians, has ventured to depart
from its tone of solemn seriousness to bring
against us the facetious charge of being actuated
by personal motives against Lord Pahnerston in
our criticism upon his foreign policy. With an
elegance only to be equalled by his archness, he
attributes to us spleen—malice—venom—bitter.
ness—absurdity and malignity—for such a pro-
fuse donation of agreeable qualities, and the
courteous terms in which they are conveyed, we
might be correspondingly grateful, if we did not
recollect that our contemporary, from the prac•
tice which he had under the military Premier's
Administration, has proved himself to have one
quality in common with the poets, that of" suc-
ceeding better in fiction than in truth." In this
case, it is true, he took more than an allowable
share of poetic license ; but when we recollect
the scriptural maxim, that " the labourer is
worthy of his hire," we cannot blame any writer
whose feelings and principles are always on the
side of the ". loaves and fishes," for earning the
good opinion of the dispensers of them. Though
charged with personal malice ourselves, we
do not feel inclined to retort that charge
upon any one who appears, while indulging in
such ludicrous calumny, to be merely labouring,
in his vocation, like any nominee of a close bo-
rough, at the command of his patron. Besides,
the charge, though serious in itself, is expressed
with so much humour, that we cannot help
laughing at it. Our Contemporary does not
often disport himself as a wag, but when he does
his drollery is irresistible. One specimen of the
jocose playfulness of our contemporary's style of
attack we cannot avoid quoting. He says—
" As those attacks of the Morning Herald
upon the Noble Lord (Palmerston) have always
been general, and not particular—levelled at his
whole foreign policy, and not at his official ma-
nagement (the exclusive object of the Chro-
nicle's animadversion), we cannot sufficiently ad-
mire the assurance of the Herald in thus at-
tempting to bolster up a bad argument by a
false quotation." Now the only quotation
which we made was the following which we
give, as we then did, word for word, from the
chronicle, and consequently, however bad our
argument might have been, our quotation was
not false. Here are the words—" Is it not no-
torious, in the society of every capital of Europe,
that our negotiations are imprudent, (quare, im-
peded ?) but never promoted, by our own agents—
thatconstant communications are maintained either
directly or indirectly between them and the anti-Re-
formers in England—that there is the most perfect
sympathy in spirit and feeling between these
parties and the Metternich and Lieven school,
the zeal of all being equally directed to uphold
the principles of the Holy Alliance—to render
unavailing any effort on the part of its victims,
whether Pole, German, Italian, or Portuguese,
to break their chains—to the suppression of all
liberal institutions---and to the firmer establish-
ment of the rule of aggression and tyranny r'
We might be disposed to wait for a reformed
Parliament for a radical cure for this
grievance,
were we not daily becoming more and more the
laughing-stock of all Europe, as the dupes of
our own agents in this miserable system'. Lord
Palmerston must be either an imbecile or some-
thing worse." When our contemporary talks of
this quotation conveying a charge only against
the official management, but not against the
foreign policy of the Foreign Secretary, we are
inclined to suspect him of a hitter sarcasm upon
the person whom he undertakes to defend ; for
what matters it whether that is called manage-
ment or policy which makes England. " the
laughing-stock of Europe," and proves " Lord
Palmerston to be an imbecile or something
worse ?" Our contemporary surely does no
mean to accuse the writer in the Chronicle

any personal malice to the Noble Viscount, and
yet he speaks of the Noble associate of Metter-

nich and Lieven in terms of coarser contempt than
we ever did, for we never went so far as to say that
England, under his political protection, had sunk
so very low as to become the laughing-stock of
Europe, nor did we ever call his Lordship an
" imbecile or something worse." Whatever
charges we have made against Lord Palmerston,
we have substantiated by a reference to facts.
During the Polish struggle, we repeatedly called
the public attention to his subserviency to the
Prussian Government, while Prussia continually
violated the principle of neutrality, to assist the
tyrant Nicholas in his unholy crusade, which
will be a stain on this country to the remotest
time. What did he do to obtain redress for the
claimants on the Brazilian Government, until
goaded into something like energy by a strong
demonstration in Parliament ? What has he
done to obtain satisfaction for the murder of Mr.
Boyd by the tyrant of Spain ? What has he
not done to forward the ambitious designs of the
Rusian despot on Greece ? Has there been
any farce performed in the theatre of Europe
equal to his diplomatic " settlement" of the
affairs of Belgium and Holland ? We concur,
in one sense, in the equivocal compliment of
our contemporary, that those who are capable of
appreciating the wisdom of Lord Palmerston's
measures, will smile at the impotency of our at-
tacks. We can encounter the smile of all those
who can discover wisdom in measures which
helped to prostrate Europe at the feet of the
barbarous supremacy of Russia.— Morn. Herald.
The anniversary of the birthday of the im-
mortal Pitt, who by his wise councils saved his
own country from anarchy and revolution, and
preserved Europe from ruin—the anniversary of
this great Statesman was yesterday celebrated at
Merchant Tailors' Hall, on which occasion the
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illustrious Wellington presided. The senti-
ments which distinguished the addresses of the
several speakers, and the enthusiasm with which
these sentiments
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presented such an array on the side of loyalty
and the constitution as must appal the very heart