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the Treasury for mis-governing us? Tbt
honours of Cincinnati's and Washington wen
never thus tarnished. Further, the Duke of
Wellington, we believe, has large foreign grants
and landed possessions in the Netherlands, ii
France, in Spain and Portugal, and, for augh!
we know, from every Potentate of the Holy
Alliance ! If such a man be proof against dr
sinister interest of foreign associations and pocket
bias it would indeed be marvellous. To more
of the past we will not recur. The sun of the
Duke of Wellington's political glory is set to
rise no more. We will not inquire how ,he
was to put down a Nation of Reformers in
"ten days-;" what warrants were contemplated
against men endeared to the People by great
exertions and sacrifices to the public interest ;
what Foreign troops might Quixotically have
been thought of, or who were the Grenadier
Guards whom his Grace would have selected as
his Cabinet Ministers. We will only remark
on the singular circumstances, that his last-ac-
quired lands were " to be holden by him to the
Kings of England, at the Castle of Windsor,
by a tri-colourcd flag ;" and that the author of
the Black Book, months since, concluded a
political sketch of his Grace as follows :—" We
shall leave the Duke with a fervent prayer, that
he will never again be Premier of England ; his
ideas and sentiments are wholly alien to the
happiness and liberties of Englishmen, and we
verily believe that his return to power would be
the signal for a general rising throughout the
kingdom."

We have been induced to illustrate the poli-
tical characters of the Duke of Wellington and
Sir Robert Peel, because those two expiring
statesmen are the last hope and refuge of the
Tory faction. All men of reflection, able to
penetratate into political futurity, and to dis-
cern the coming changes of parties, and princi-
ples of Government in this country, must see
the utter impossibility of those two public men
conducting the difficult affairs of this nation for
two successive years. Their political principles
are obsolete—their reputation for statesman-like
power and consistency of action is utterly gone :
abandoned, despised by the Ultra-Tories (the
most honest part of their ancient allies,) and
confessedly unable to govern a House of Com-
mons or to satisfy the people, their future dura-
tion in office—if they should again be so daring
as to assume the reins of Government—must
be, indeed, short-lived. The two Ex- Ministers
have both pronounced that a " strong" Adminis-
tration—their Administration, of course—is im-
possible under the amendment of the Representa-
tion which the country has decreed. If, therefore,
as they say, this is certain, we have disinterested
testimony that they cannot again hold the helm
of public affairs. If they could, however, again
repossess themselves of Tory misrule, what
must be the hypocrisy or falsehood of their pre-
sent bitter denunciations of the Reform
Bills ? They have both denounced Par-
liamentary Reform as revolution ; and a revo-
lution it will, and ought to be, as respects
their principles of government. Toryism
and its corrupt representation have hitherto bol-

stered up every species of abuse. The Muni-
cipal System, the Church, the Nomination
Boroughs, the Debt, the Taxation, the Ex-
penditure—every thing has been pressed
into corrupt service and sinister advantage.
By the old machinery they can never again
rule ; and their temporary return to office would
probably only accelerate those expectant benefits
of the Reform measures which it would be their

bigoted and stupid object to prevent. They
must, as the Saints would say, be" born again,"
Or become '6 new men," if they again attained
executive power. This change of moral and
political nature cannot be possible in so old a
man and so superannuated a politician as the
Duke of Wellington, notwithstanding his Grace
turns on his axis with the facility of a swivel
gun. Sir Robert Peel also, however willing
and supple in rotatory motion, has, neverthe-
less, in his own estimation, turned so frequently,
that any more chamelion changes would leave
him a Robinson Crusoe on a desert island.—
Nothing can be more truly ridiculous than the
recent " false positions" of the Military Duke
and his practised Right Hon. Aide-de-Camp;
we speak not of other Members of his Staff,
because the code of military law requires implicit
obedience to the " orders" of a commander. Mini-
sters are assaulted by their two veritable and con-
sistent predecessors, because, forsooth, they have
yielded to agitation ! On Catholic Emancipa-
twit the great Captain yielded to agitation. In
his recent surrender of opinion, and willingnesss
to accept office on the principles of Lord Grey,
whom he factiously attempted to undermine,
the Duke of Wellington yielded to agitation.
After pronouncing daring opinions, that there
was no feeling in the public mind in favour of
Reform, both these magnificent Statesmen
avowed that Reform was an inevitable and ne-

cessary concession to the voice of the people—
to agitation. And thus calumniating Ministers,
and ascribing false motives to their political con-
duct, they were yet ready and willing to adopt
the springs of action which, imputed to the
Whig Cabinet, they denounced as infamous and
cowardly ! We say they, because no man can
separate the palpable conduct of these two humi-
liated public men. The Duke of Wellington, from
his profession and callous feeling, was more
daring and open in hig demonstration ; and Sir
Robert Peel, though more wary, and, perhaps,
more doubtful of success, was as deeply impli-
cated in the recent plots. A warming-pan--
some (I,lr. Herries may be—would have held the

seals of the Home Department till the Right
Honourable Baronet attained his majority. Sir
Robert Peel would have been profuse, as usual,
in professions of sincere opposition to the
Duke's plan of Reform ; he would have com-
manded an army of observation, and conducted
the manoeuvres and feints of the Duke's noto-
rious tactics ; he would have poured forth
his crocodile and copious conservative effu-
sions, and as occasion required, had made
a cunning diversion, or covered the retreat
of the Commander-in-Chief, as might be deemed
most expedient under circumstances.,.. His jus-
tification of his own mask ; his eulogies on his
Grace after the relinquishment of the deep-laid
scheme; his unblushing attempt to re-invest Lord
Lyndhurst and Lord Ellenborough with charac-
ter—all prove that, although Sir Robert Peel
had not the courage to execute, yet he was ne-
vertheless particeps eriminis in planning the
intended campaign against the just and over-

f powering rights of the people. A report of the
House of Commons enlightened the public with
the knowledge of that peculiar class of offendtrs
called " family men :" the booty generally falls
into the hands of those who run the least risl;„
Ile bungling explanation of Sir Robert Peel,
after the exp'osion of the plot, afforded a tow
proof that guilty men are more frequently col •
victed by their own defences, than by their
prosecutors. If Sir Robert Peel's " explanatio:,"
is syllogistically examined, nothing can be mole
truly contemptible. If the Duke of Wellington,
as his apologist asserted, was justified in his
abortive attempt to form a Ministry on the basis
of an extensive plan of Reform, what could ex-
tenuate the political cowardice of the Right
Honourable Baronet in refusing his aid to
his " Noble Friend ? " IC the Duke was
not justified, what must be the detestable na-
ture of that casuistry in a public man, who
unblushingly apologized for the most glaring dis-
regard of political principle on record in the
annals of this or any other nation ? From one
of the horns of this dilemma the Right Honour-
able Baronet cannot be extricated ; and there is
now nothing wanting to perfect his versatile and
turn-spit reputation, but to repeal his Currency
Bill of 1819, and substitute an inconvertible
medium in its stead. The Tory party, out of
doors, load him with abuse ; the friends of the
Duke of Wellington revile Peel as the most un-
worthy deserter; they are the most disinterested
witnesses against the Baronet's consistency and
political valour; and he has lost for ever—and
he knows it—that grand, essential, and rallying
point of party power—moral courage, and con-
sistency in political action. Re-union with the
Ultra-Tories is impossible—the old sore is in-
curable ; a coalition with the trimming Moderls
is equally hopeless, and could not subsist for
twelve months ; a juste milieu Administration
would beget a movement and ultimately a tri-
umphant popular party. The Duke has fallen
into a bottomless pit from whence the political
Satan can never emerge. The Right Honour-
able Baronet has realized the proverb of " be-
tween two stools." Both men now stand in the
pillory of the people's scorn and contempt ; they
are the disorderly characters exposed in the
stocks to the infinite satisfaction of all good sub-
jects, and honest bystanders. And what is the
cry against the present Administration as not
being "business men," and as " unable to conduct

the affairs of the country ?" Verily, the Whigs
have continued in office all the old civil, diplomatic,
and municipal Tories. What Member ofthe present
Cabinet will not bear advantageous comparison
with the Ex-Wellington Administration ? Wan)
are the crack " business men" of his Grace's late
coadjutors ? Possibly Miguel, Ferdinand, Ni-
cholas, and the Grand Turk, are not so much
esteemed ; mayhap the Holy Alliance is less
thought of, and young France more considered.
The pert and vulgar chatter of Mr. Croker may
not be replaced, and John Bull may enjoy less
spirit and be less in vogue ; may be the " Tame
Elephant" is not supplanted by any hairy ani-
mal, and Mr. Goulbourn's incapacity remains
still unrivalled ; peradventure the office of Pre-
mier is filled by a Noble successor, more en-
lightened, upright, and consistent than the Duke
of Wellington ; and the Home Department may
ultimately produce more real and efficient muni-
cipal Reformers than the administration of the
(Treat political Pretender, Sir Robert Peel, lre-

land cannot be worse oft' than when Orangeism
constituted the sole passport to honours and
public emoluments. Legal and Church patro-
nage may not be so exclusively bestowed on
Tory parsons and utterers of " pamphleteering
slang." Away, then, with this factious cry,
got up like the hootings of " Stop thief!" that
the real pick-pockets may get home. The only
just indictment against Ministers is, that they
have not displaced " the business. men"—the
swarm of Tory Diplomatists—the plotting un-
derlings of office—the corrupt provincial poten-
tates who clog the operations of Government,
calumniate its best purposes, and will ultimately
destroy it, if the Augean Stable be not early and
thoroughly cleansed' out.

ROLLS COURT, JUNE 2.

HEALEY V. JAGGER•

In this case, of which upon a Rimier occasion we pre-
sented a detailed account, Mr. PEMBERTON moved this
morning for a new trial of an issue which had been directed
by the Court to determine the validity of a marriage, and
also a question respecting the plaintiff's legitimacy. Geo.
Healey devised to his son a freehold interest of from 3001.
to 4001. a year, with remainder to his children in case he
should marry, and remainder over. This son, while yet
under age, was apprenticed to a farmer near St. Alban's,
where he became acquainted with a female who was
housekeeper to a gentleman in the neighbourhood, and by
whom she had been the mother of four children. A quar-
rel having been in some way occasioned between this indi-
vidual and her protector, an intimacy was formed be-
tween her and the minor, which soon after, in 1819, re-
sulted in their marriage, he being only at the age of eigh-
teen, and her eldest child being nine years old. In order
to avoid the inconvenience of the interference of his rela-
tions, it was arranged that the marriage should be per-
formed in London; but the union was hardly consum-
mated when the parties, within twenty-four hours of their
being man and wife, separated. Two or three years af-
terwards, however, on his attaining majority, Healey being
in London, was arrested for a debt of his wife, and some ne-
gotiations having been set on foot by his friends for the
purpose of procuring a regular separation, he, according
to the evidence, kept company with her for a few days.
Not long afterwards he died, and his wife was delivered of
a daughter, who was the plaintiff in the present suit, and
claimed under the will of her grandfather to be entitled to
her father's income. This, however, was resisted on the
ground that the marriage had been invalid, from some in-
formality in publishing the bans, but chiefly on the
►round that in the circumstances of the parties there could
hare been, it was maintained, no such connexion be-
tween her supposed father and mother as in the eye of
the law would establish her legitimacy. At the trial the
Jury had found for the plaintiff, and the Court was now
moved to grant a new trial, on the plea that the Jury had
decided against the weight of evidence.—The application
was dismissed.

BAIL COURT, Java 2.
EARDER V. FIDDLER.
In this case, which was not concluded on Saturaii
when we went to press, a verdict was returned for th
plaintiff to the full amount.

By the death of Sir JAMES MACINTOSH, a
vacancy has arisen in the representation of Knaresboi ough,
and a seat at the Board of Commissioners for India Affairs
has also fallen to the patronage of the Ministers. Mr.
TIERNEY, many years ago, described the Hon. Com-
missioners of the Board of Control as having nothing
,more to do than to look over the newspapers, and when
tired of that to look out of the window. Sir JAMES was
in the receipt of 1,2001. from the East India Company, as
late Recorder of Bombay. A daughter of Sir JAMES
married the present Sir WILLIAM WISEMAN, Bart., who,
however, lost his lady in 1522.
We understand that the leading country Re-
.6riners have honourably determined to postpone the grand
lay of national rejoicing, till after the Scotch and
Reform Bills have received the Royal Assent. This de-
eision is worthy the truly generous and patriotic character
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he benefits of content and good government. Then, in-
!eed a British KING will be truly the envy and adinira-
(ion of the world.—Morning chronicle.