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better .entitled himself to the gratitude of his
people, than George the Fourth, if moderation
and fairness, in the exercise of has high authority,
and enlightened liberality,"and a tolerant re-
-gard for the feelings and opinions of his
subjects, are to be considered in the light
of a title. We more than once expres-
sed our sentiments distinctly on this sub-
ject, at a tine when our motives could not be
liable to misconstruction. But we claim nothing
more for George the Fourth than we would claim
for any Sovereign of this country,
,nay, for the
meanest subject of the realm, that the sanctuary
of private life should not be violated. The So-
vereign does not renounce the feelings of hu-
manity when he is elevated -to the Throne ; he
requires., the solace and sympathy of friends—
ihe-stipport of those charities without which life
!would be insupportable. • Why, then, should
any man mil* to his Sovereign what he claims
for himself? -Why. should he seek to draw aside
the veil-which the Sovereign has interposed be-
tween himself and the public ? Why should lie
seek to wound him, either directly or indirectly,
through attacks on those by whom he is sur-
rounded,_ merely becaUse they are his friends?
If those who either slander the King themselves,
or patronise his slanderers, have enjoyed the ad-
vantage of having been thcmselveS admitted into
his private circle, surely that forms no justifica-
tion of their departure from a rule with regard.
to the Sovereign which is held sacked in the case
of private individuals. Political opposition does
not surely justify the violation-of the social du-
ties. It is not a little strange that this departure
from- decency, in the case of the Sovereign,
Should be first shown by those who used to lay
claim to a more than ordinary loyalty. During
,the. worst. of times; and when faction ran highest
in this country, the King's private friends were
never named, even in those Journals. most dis-

iinguisbed. for their violence. Faction is now
Out of date ; it died, as we have often observed,
on the introduction of the system of Adminis-
tration which followed the death of the late Lord
Londonderry. There has long been a distinc-
tion between the liberal men of either of the
parties which used to divide the country. • - Yet,
without any of the agitating circumstances of for-
mer times to serve even as a palliative; we find
this dirty work pursued day after day, by men
claiming all the religion and loyalty rof the. coun-
try—the Ultra Tories.. In some of the Country
Paper's, the clergy are accused of having express-
ed indecent joy at the death of Mr. Canning,
and of countegancing this system of .detraction.
We trust the charge is not applicable to many
members of the Body. The people of England,
with all their faults,.
,will not easily sympathise
with such religion and -such loyalty.—Morning
Chronicle.' . - •

' .Some of the Whig journals assume great me-
rit to the Marquis of LansdOwne for having, as
they call it, given way to Lord Goderich upon
theresent occasion ; as. well as for consenting
to hold-office under that Nobleman. We are
fully convinced that no such jealousy exists' in
the mind of the Noble Marquis ; and it is there-
fore -tO the argiiment as used by the advocates,
not as entertained by the principals, that we ad-
dress -ourselves. We are quite unconscious
what giving way there can have been upon the
occasion. Lord Goderich has taken_ . the post
assigned him by his Sovereign ; and that which
would have been assigned him, we will venture
to say, in preference to the Marquis of Lang-
downe at least, by nine-tenths of the community.
There could be no choice, no giving way, when
the persdn on whose fiat the matter rested, made
none. Lord Goderich is-at least the Marquis
of. Lansdowne's equal as_ a public,man in every
respect—much longer in office, much better ac-
quainted, with the policy of the Government And
the principles upon which it has hitherto been
conducted, and much.pore likely to conciliate
Foreign Powers, and all parties at home, than
the Noble Marquis, who,, as an official man, -is
only known to the country as-a short-lived, and
not Ivry popular, Chancellor of, the Exchequer,
one-and-twenty years ago. But besides a per-
sonal reason, to which' we will not at this mo
runt- advert, which may render the Marquis of
Lansdowne not exactly the person which the
King might wish to,eonfer most closely with
upon this occasion, the. Marquis seems tons to
be placed in that very office already, where, in-
dependently of, the inconvenience arising from.
nacessant changes,. he is most likely to be of use
to the country. As Secretary of State for the
Home Department, the Government of Ireland
devolves tqlon.the Marquis, with which, as one
of its great landowners, he must, we should ima-
gine,: be better acquainted than any person who
has of late held the Seals of that Department:
Of Ireland we have no hesitation in expressing
it as. our fixed opinion, that she is capable of be-
ing rendered of more 'real value to this country
than all her colonies, and foreign possessions
and connections, thrown together ; and that to be
rendered of that value, she only requires to have
her means and resources brought into action
a wise and enlightened system of policy, pur-
sued with a steady, undeviating course. Let
the Marquis of Lansdowne' set about and
bring into action this system, and he will prove
himself a benefactor of no common kind both to

England and Iteland. His local knowledge and
ikerests, as we have said, go far to qualify him
for the task, if he takes care that they do not
bias him too far, to the
incomes
mode of abstract-
ing enormous abSentee from that coun-
try, without much reference to the methods
through vhich they are raised. One of the many
valuable boons which might be conferred upon
Ireland, IF4 Lad be a power of 'cutting off the en-
tails under which so much of the landed pro-

perty is at present held. 'This; by enabling many
of the larger landowners to dispose of property
which they do not visit, or see well managed,
would distribute an interest in the soil among a
multitude of smaller holders, who, besides the
mere abstract benefit of residence and personal
inspection, Would bring extensive capital, both
for the purpose of tillage and manufactures, into
action, g.nd by giving employment and civiliza-
tion to that mass of the inhabitants who are now
mere wanderers and Outcasts, would do more to
promote national prosperity than any other means
we know of. This is only one among number-
less benefits which might be conferred upon Ire-
land, by those who have the peculiar charge of
that part of the Administration, giving their
steady, undivided, and impartial attention to the
subject. Above all things, by a Government
having this object in view, party feeling must on,
all hands be "put to silence, and the• Catholic
Question rendered a matter of secondary im-
portance ; for a questiOn of secondary importance
it would assuredly become, .if. Matters 'of higher
moment-L-such, .for instance, as those we. have
alluded to—were tc:(engaqe the sincere and un-
divido attention of the Governnient. The Ca
tholic Question is, and ever has been, n 'mere
bugbear—or rather the shell, which those who
! covet the kernel throw among the. angry 4is-