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London, England, 1828-01-11 00:00:00

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It St a matter of public not.ltety-to' Oen, .
Conion and Westminster, and below. and to int*? holiest
it will be known to every wan in England. that W
Majesty has commanded the Dike of Wellingtoe -eo
offer him his unbiassed opinion upon the manner in
Which the Ministry should be reconstructed. A Mere
iniportitill And a more delicate Offite never was com-
mitted to any subject of' the realm; and we entertain
a confident expectation that it will be executed with
the discretion sod the magnanimity becoming so extra-
ordinary a situation. . •
The first and the principal matter which he has to
consider, is the strange difference that has arisen in the
Cabinet, and has more immediately given occasion to
the demand for his counsel: we allude to the disa-
greement between Mr. Hosctssou and Mr. Humes..
The former is understood to have proposed the forma-
tion of a Comioittee, in redemption of Mr.Ceetriso's
memorable pledge of effectual and systematic retrench-
ment—a pledge on which the House of Commons
acted last Session, postponing, in tiontideration of
it, the inquiries otherwise inevitable into the expen-
diture of our Revenue, and reforms unanimously
demanded by all the people except a few persons
in place, to whom it must always prove most for-
midable. He is understood to have proposed a
Committee, which, from its construction, must prove
'competent to. the task.-..the AIISOIXTZLY ilittaitAlT
task—of at length satisfying the just expectations of
the country t and, ab.ore all, which should act under a
xlsairman. whose character, whose weight, and whose
capacity for 4airs may afford a security that the
iaquiry. will prove real ancleffective, not colourable and
idelusiee. Mr. Hen ies is stated to have taken an opposite
view of the matter, and peremptorily objected to his
colleague's proposition. Upon this great question,—of
all others the most interesting to the nation,—those two
inisters are understood to be at issue; and it is plain
that men at variance on such a. point as this cannot
possibly act together. -
Now the practical question being, whether Mr. Hut.
'kissoo or Mr.jierries is to give way,—which of the two
is to prevail. and which the country is to part with,—
upon this plain and .intelligible ground it naturally
occurs to every one to ask the question,—Who, and
what is Mr. Betties, that his wishes should be con-
stilted ?—who, and what is Mr. Herries, that all of a
sudden he should have started into such a strange
importance, and have proved, twice within five months,
the great subject of political discussion—the pivot on
which the greatest art Ingements of the State have
hinged? To common. observation he is only known as
an industrious clerk for many year/,....private Secre
tary of successive Secretaries of the Treasirry,—then in
(he Commitutiat, and raising himself, at length, to the
useful and laborious, but nut very distinguished plate
of a Secretary to the, Treasury.
. In-point of talents for Parliamentary debate, be may
fairly be said,- and without the least exaggeration, to
rank math lower• than any one man Ow ever took
upon him the dutiei of such an office as be holds. With
the country, he hes no kind-of estimation for good or
for evil, because to the country he is utterly unknown.
Why, then, the. question retain, is such a person to be
forced upon the ring and the nation, even if there
were no season tor rejecting him, except the bare corn.
parisen with Mr. Huskisson personally ? But when, we
find the balance to be, Mr. fluskisson and effectual
retrenchment in the one scale, and Mt. Herrin its
,opponent in the other, that which it was difficult to
answer be ore, becomes utterly and hopelessly unan-
swerable. r.. -- ••• , - -
That the Duke of- Wellington will duly weigh this
preliminary question, and not proceed iu his talk until
he can either cut the knot or untie it salisfictorlly, no'
one who respects his Glace can doubt for a moment.—.;
That his Grace will do his duty, far be it from our
shads to doubt ; but :he first question to b. answered=
and the question everywhere echoed through the country,
again meets us—Who, or what is Mr. Harries, that all
this importance should be attached to his prejudices
against effectual retrenchment ? Thetountry a ill persist
in I,utting this question, until it obtains an answer ; and.
we trust its representatives will also speedily and freely
put it. • .
It is of course smnecessitry to add, bat we have no
new feet' to communicate an the subject of the Ministry,
because sone such have taken place. The existing state
of things *entirely and accurately repeated in the pre-
ceding, obsea rations. _ :
' Ittolit Tilt ameNING CHRONICI.t.
, Those circumstances which have been adverted win
a Morning Paper of yesterday, as indicating the breaking
up the Administration, are but of slight importance
when competed with the graver symptoms Dia pproachs-
•ing.dissolution. strongly exhibited during the hat few
weeks in the conduct of the Premier. To the plans of
nuance and .economical regulations, which -are there
elated to have given rise to the dissensions in the Cabinet, j
Ike are not disposed to attach much credit, aid mutual
:doubt whether any of such a nature as to justify die
eakto have ever been agitated.-Questions of a arose Wl*
.meditate and urgent stamp, relating to the present critical'
state of our foteign policy—questions of peace or ewer—
mayswith more probability, have brought on a difference
of opinion. But; whatever may have been the questions, if
any,which have divided theMinisters,we are satiafi:d that
the bands by which the balance of power was held were
too feeble for the task; and thet the trite cause of
the termination of this• Government must be found in-the
'weakness of its Chief. It is not, hove, es., the cagsywhich
has destroyed the old, but the manner in which the
new Government is to be formed, that-will become the,
most important and lisressing subject of public interest.
_Upon this point we are enabled to State; thaii, up to
it bee . hour yesterday no positive! information could'
'possibly -be obtained, because no deckled step had I
actually been taken. The Duke of Wellirsgtoa is un-
derstood
to have received directions on the sot4ect when
he was with the Icing on WOdbesday. His Grace may
be supposed to be taking some swps in consequence of
these directions. What they are can only be.tbe sub-
ject of conjecture at piesent; but some perions well
tiforined, and who have the interest of the country truly
at heart, are of opinion that his Grace's endeavours will
be employed to construct a liberal rather than an ex-,
elusively Tory Government.
The desire for retrenchment has been so generally et-
st,t
pressed throethroughout the country, tad the preszrit state of
,enanances ads so powerfully for the strictest econcli,
my, that, w' ut good evidence, we should be sawilling
totelieVellty Minister, not eltogetheflost to a regard for
1 eharacterwith the. nation, could-be so deficient in jedr.
went as to entertain for one moment the idea of baulking'
its well-founded expectations. When, therefore,' ive saw
the statement in the Times of yesterday, respects% Ihe.
davence between Mr. Huskitson and Mr.--Herries,
we were almoit certain that the tree cause of. that Air
forence was not assigned. Passing over much in that`
atatensent, as the period has not yet arrived- ftir
laying the subject fully betels the 'publics we beliefs
'we may oey that the alleged difFeredo between 1 Wil
Hilda mid Mu Haskissow -on ineasstes-44 riallbes

bas no aiisteoce.,, A difference, wt are.leadrte*
'spit,
11$, tilken pine 100 respect to tbe.foseunici
tie. finance Committee I. but a,diference on this'
does not neces aktly involve .on either side a wish
tdsrnw any impediment in the way of setteqchment. It
indeed, extremely to be' regretted th.stip!di,:do
should h4ve ari.en, even ots set absttact point, bet*.
Men who have uniformly a,:reed on the must asset
Matters. When the period for the stistlosure rf pa
milers arrives, we shall enleavoor to obtain chem.-
*t mean time, eve cannot pass over the Oprlc of
statement in silence. The I kV. asks, " Iles .
Herries a plan of finance to prose in lieu of
' kiu,kirsines?" Our answer to I.l_,is is, Honk'
hat none, and v•nsequently Mr. Henries can offer II
•
'in opposition. Another queetionis as'eed, " Can
Herries carry on the concerns of shed etutary with,
rettenchment ?" Our belief i,, that he had do iintn •.
of trying even :he experiment, and that he wodfd b..
recommended as the Committee of Finance those O.
tlemen who had most turned their attention to tin; su • • ,
of finance, of the mast influential character and twin
' ing to all parties, the character of the indivi,nels
•
posing the committee serving es a patentee to •
public of its honest intentions. it is further a led.
" Has, he plan which will expose, and render use!.
in future, any tricker.; prectiwit in nisking up the p
lic accounts, Ecc.r LA us be just to individuals.
Huskinson has a high reputation with the con
for firmness and integrity, and -he ceserees it. Butt
man knows better than Mr. Huskisson the merits
Mr. Herrin, as a clear-beaded man of busintiss. h
•bas rioter been accused of advocating, or .practisis
,trieltoiy; end We will, Jo, him the justice to sty, Oa
at believe he i*pot suspected.by sty of his eolleasst
-ofirdisptiiiioss to commence it. .We believe he is ,
only disposed, bit determiad to carry on the work - .
letienchnient quite as tar as the most liberal. of his
sent coileeputs are disposed to go with filth.
The. e can, we believe, be but one opinion with t eget
to told Althurp. No man .has a b tier 'Jain] to
confidence of his feHirw citizens, as au honest and deta
mined asses ter of their tights—he merits and posses
the respect -of men of all parties, But it is pe.ssible t
a wish hit th, very succes of the labours of the C'
ramie mar have led Mi. Herries to wish to have in t•
Chair one less likely eo mite any jealousy arising -
of party feelings,*hich might have provoked uensen
opposition. A diference of views on a point of
th
nature, is not .to be taken as a coliqnsive proof
indisposition to the object in the Committee. • -
But, -as' we have already obset veds the time for.ente
ing on this subject is nor yet ariien,.i.
FRObt THE MORNING POST.
It Is with the most joyful and triempbant
that we congratulate the. Canna,y on the complt •
dissolution of an Administtalion, which, during t,
brief career, has'teen productive of nothing but • In
chief, and which threatened to indict upon.the Na
a fatal succession of diagt4ei -and calamities..
Amid the sneer of blinds, the pity _seen of enem •
and the derision of ...1"; the bste;poverament 'has -
pired. escape the, Exeistiiniet, it biecOmmit,
Suicide. Peace to its• tubes- ,
The reasons assigned fear this eetastrophe are yari
Mr. Huskisson and Finance, says one ; Lord Alter,
and the Finance Comthittee, says another ; Mr. Tier,
. •
'end Ihtliguo, says a third. •
The statement in the leading Jaurnal of the defu
Ministry., in regard to Mr. HuskissOn's financial pl •
is palpably untrue, and cart acs absurdly en the face
it. *lt may be true, and doubtles Vile, that L
Althorn; Was spoken to by Mr.Timarremtddift.Hvskt •,
unkdown to Mr. Hetries,. and consichned by them
the fittue Chairman of the Finance COmruitiee. It
be ttur. that .Mr.'Hesrien, *ids his Vitiated energy •
deciiion of clterecter,
,refesed to acquiesce in that non
natiON utintS %hand public principles. It may be tea
ghat Lord Godetich was es weak and it resolute 'as
writer in windier Paper (7he. (Ahronide) says Los
Lensdovin is, acrd tossed about like a Ship in
.a goo
amid conflicting elements,' •
Withctut dwillinz upon these Windily :awes, el'
know that reasons misted of a far more influential
pressing chat ectet—iiresonS which must baei broken
the Ministry, had the inance Committee- never • ••
thought or spoken of.
The great question of tier or Peace decided-the
bluets; -acid the time had more s'when a'sseak inefficiet .
Minister could no longei'auld the:balance betwer
contending principles. Thii,t_l.* had
war to be decided come, when
viberher Wsig influence should pr,
dtuninate, by Lord I,*lnnti's adasis,ion two- theta
binet, or whether the hig.
Party should be theratein
ejected in -disgrace? Day after Oky,
W
week after
the Ministry tottered on, unfit its wi„knew and amr
disorganization became such, at it crumbled to trim'
almost of its own accord.
lf causes so trifling as those In., ught
surviving frkads could make it talle
trabundation
have beep, if possible, still weaker the,
its mibled he
Thinks to the wisdom of our graciou Moaatch, sr
to his.firmaess in the maintenance of pi
which seated his Illusttiour family on th Throne(
these Beeline, the triumph of true Tory lfla
now complete.
The Duke of Wellington has been commist:ohAi
foray en Administration, round which the towels:
Comitutional Principles may salty with confidence.
him ail hopes are now concentrated; and ere long ‘•
shall hays to announce the the formation of a Nlinisti,V
not less strong in the esteem of the Monarch and t,
affections of his people, than worthy of Uinta
Pasha:nen. taty support.
PROM THs HEW TIMIS.
7e gated yesterday the fact, which the country I
learned with mach regret, that Viscount Goderich
tendered his resignation to his Majesty: We stated
in a plain nnornamented manner.
We shall, therefore, continue to pursue, for the
sent, the course which we adopted yesterday ; oc
premising,. that whenever it may, cease to be reqoit
for the advantage, not of patties, but of the State,
shall be found neither unwilling nor unable to lay oft'
the mysteries of political transactions.
:--With respect tq what is passing at the present ti
we shall frankly say, that nothing has yet mat
suficient state of maturity to assume any dei
form or character, even in the eyes of the parties t
gaged in the reconstruction of the Ildinistry. The Due
QI: Wellington, by whom tie first steps
are to 'I
ta*-en, is known to base expressed his approbation'
it system in which different interests and opinions
blended; so that instead of pursuing separate objects di
may all unite and lose themselves in the lertige of I
'Country. It is not probable, therefore, with such sail
Mints, exemplified by his own conduct in tejoiail
after the death of Mr. Canning. the friends from ski
he -144 secbcled, that he should propose to his 11
044'4 -Ministry formed of one exclusive opinion,
It *Wit the same time equally probable that he in
thins it necessary to strengthen some parts of the pc
deist Won, which he May eonceive,tto have been
thjuriOusly weak in. the late He may v'
'ghat the balance should be naere-squaity poised. I

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