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London, England, 1828-01-14 00:00:00

tions. If we should have a Minister like Mr.
Huskisson, enlightened and virtuous at the same
r
I time, be would be opposed at every step by igrio-
ranee and prejudice, .. The Constitution gives the
King the power of choosing Ministers. But he
' must choose Ministers acceptable to Parliament.
' This power is somewhat like the' power of choice
which the Church of England gives: Read the
' Bible) and choose for yourselves; but if you do not
;'tumble on the 3t Article's ilk, it, you must be de-
barred from all plates of profit and trust. The King,
in like itlahrier, must choose those. whom Parlia,
inent will choose to have. When Parliament is di-
vided into two parties, if he Can Contrive, by taking
a few Ministers fretti each, to have the support of
both, fit limy manage to have a little influence. But
a Ministry exclusively Whig or exclusively Tory,
would he under the necessity of disposing of all the
patronage to strengthen their interest. Hence we
May. he sure that his Majesty, from King-craft,
would always prefer an Administration of both par-
ties, to an Administration of
We rinatrstand that on Thursday the Duke of
Wellington despatched a dragoon with a letter to
Earl Bathurst, who was at the seat of the Duke of '
Richmond, at Goodwood, in Sussex; where the Earl
was on a visit. 'the Duke Wan sb Cenfident that
the Contents of his letter Would immediately bring
the Carl to Lotichitt, that be gave orders to the Earl's
servant at his Lordship's town house in Stanhope-
street, May-fair, to sit up for the Noble Earl. His
Lordship arrived inLondon accordingly at midnight.
The Earl has had several interviews with the Duke
of Wellington since his arrival in London. On Sa-
turday Mr. Lambton had a long interview with
Lord Goderich upon the subject of his reported
Peerage. The resignation,however, of the Noble Lord,
it is supposed, has stopped at least for the present, the
advancement of the Ilonettrahle Gentleman to the
Peerage, Mr. Huskisson was at the Royal Lodge
at Windsor on Friday, and had a very long audience
of his Majesty. It is supposed thatthe Right Hon.
Gentleman will form part of the new Cabinet. An
explanation of the affair between him and. Mr. Her-
ries is said to have taken place, and it is believed
Mr, .ferries will also belong to the new Administra-
tion. Earl Dudley was at Windsor on Saturday
and had a very long interview with the King. We
understand that it is highly probable his Majesty
will arrive in town this week, fora the purpose of
facilitating, by his presence, the formation of the new
Ministry, when the Duke of Wellington, in con-
junction with Mr. Peel, will be commissioned for
the purpose of completing the list to be laid before
the King for his approval. His Majesty does not
intend to visit the theatres, not being in health suf-
ficient for the purpose, but as soon as the Ministry
is formed he will return to the Lodge. There is
no truth in the report that the Marquis Wellesley
had an interview with the King on Thursday. The
interview will not, it is said, take place till his Ma-
jesty's arrival in London.—Morning Herald.

There is no longer a doubt that the men under
whose administration Great Britain was generally
prosperous and happy--and although she now and
then encountered impediments and experienced re-
verses, struggled upwards to a pinnacle before un-
known of glory and greatness—are again to have the
chief direction of her affairs. This grand point is,
we believe, entirely settled; and we are therefore
relieved from any great or overwhelming anxiety for
the welfare of our- country, although the detailed
arrangements are not yet so fully matured as to war-
rant us in indicating to what individual each depart-
ment of the Government is to be entrusted. In an
Administration so knit together by the common
patriotism of its Members, and by
.the perfect
esteem and confidence they universally entertain to-
wards'each other, as that of which the elements
are now at least collected, if not yet perfectly ar-
ranged, the question as to who shall fill the highest
place loses whatever interest it might have derived
from personal rivalry or conflicting; pretension, be-
comes a political question from which all personal
considerations are abstracted, and resolves itself into
this :—I-low may the Administration as a whole be
rendered the strongest—the most secure—the best
fitted to inspire confidence not only in its character
but in its permanency throughout the nation.
It is in this view of the question that we
propose to consider it—to consider it in any other
would be injurious and offensive to the high-minded
and patriotic Statesmen whose individual feelings or
interests it might be supposed to affect. The illus-
trious Wellington cannot be spared from the com-
mand of the army, of which he is at once the pride
and the glory, though he will return to his former
Cabinet situation. The only persons, therefore, who
have been mentioned as proper to fill the office of
Premier are the Marquis of Wellesley and Mr.
Peel. To neither of these two distinguished indi-
viduals can we have the slightest objection. We
shall cheerfully and gratefully hail the appointment
of either as a positive benefit conferred upon the
country. But as-it is not yet we believe decided
which of the two shall fill the highest place in the
new Administration, and as, notwithstanding our
high respect for both, we should prefer one of these
eminent men to the other, we think it right at the
present moment to declare that preference, and
to state the reasons upon which it is founded.
That the Marquis of Wellesley is a Statesmen
of splendid talent, of high and varied accomplish-
ments, of ample experience, of great firmness, reso-
lution, and integrity, no candid and well-informed
person can deny. That his personal importance,
great as it is, acquires a considerable accession from
the circumstance that he is brother to the Duke of
Wellington, certainly the greatest living warrior,
prohably, notwithstanding the sneers of the igno-
rant, the stupid, or the disaffected, the greatest liv-
ing Statesman in Europe, must also be admitted :
he would, no doubt, be an excellent Prime Mini-
ster; yet our preference of Mr. Peel, even to this
Statesman, so richly endowed, so gloriously con-
nected, we do not hesitate to avow. England,
wearied with the changes and the uncertainty of
the last ten months, is anxious to see an Admi-
nistration so constituted as to afford the best pos-
sible guarantee of its permanency. But in popu-
lar estimation, so long as the head remains the
same, the continuity of the Administration is not
broken. Mr. Peel is in the prime and vigour of
life. The Marquis of Wellesley is of an age con-
siderably more advanced. The chance of permanency
for the Administration of Lord Wellesley, would
not, therefore, be nearly so good as for that of Mr.
Peel. This circumstance, we trust, will not be
overlooked. The causes of permanency may exist in
an Administration, and will, we believe, exist in
the Administration now forming, independently of
the individual who may be placed at its head; but
they cannot be made so visible to the popular eye.
At the present moment, this consideration assumes
an unusual degree of importance. During the past
year the people of England have been so disgusted
and their interests have so deeply suffered from the
evident instability of the Government, that it is
scarcely possible they should behold with unnungled
satisfaction the creation of a Ministry, having at its
head a Premier of an age so advanced as that of
the Marquis Wellesley. Another reason, and one of
still greater weight for our preference of Mr. Peel,
is his uniform and consistent opposition to the un-
constitutional claims of the Catholics. It is not
merely Oil account of the coincidence between Mr.
Peel's opinions and our own upon this subject, that
we speak thus. We think that even the Statesmen
who enterfam opinions different from his on this one
Point, but who nevertheless consent to become his
colleagues, must desire to see him placed in the post
of pre-eminence, ‘vith a view to the general effici-
ency and the substantial security of the Administra-
tion ; inasmuch as it must have become evident to the
most superficial observer of the occurrences of the
last few years, that the head of a Ministry being a
Protestant advocate, upon whose firmness and inte-
grity the nation can rely, is in itself a circumstance,
in the actual state of public feeling, eminently con-
ducive to the strength and efficiency of that Minis-
try for die general purposes of Government. There
is another consideration also, which, if it be of less
importance than the foregoing, ought not to be