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arpartia:iry' ind independence Which it is odr ambition
should characterise this Paper upon all vrbierts. 0
its fir. eign policy, especially, we have tult outse!ves
comPtled to speak in almost unmeasured no ens ol
condertioation. Its financial objects were, linwevri
we believe, cot tett and well intentioned; and. h id the
one remained unemb massed by the other, we ale in-
clined to think that, ..1100 ing for the smotheoing nature
of the incubui of the uebt, something in the way
of economy and teiorm might have been hiought
about by the pint labours and practical good sense
of such men as I.r. Hu.kisson and Mr. hierliet.—.
/iut it is in vain for a man in private life to have
a good steward, if he himself will outrun the con-
aahle ; and it is equally in vain to expect that a Chan-
cellor of the Exchecpier can relieve a country from its
embarrassments, if, while he is retrenching on the
one band, he finds a Portuguese and a Greek expe-
dition adding twice as much to the debtor side of
the account. No country probably 114$, in so short
a period, exhibited such striking instances of fully
as this has done in the above two particulars. " Hui-
band y, ur resout ces," says common sense; " do all you
can to retrieve your financial embarrassments, that you
'may, as tar as possible, be lead), for war, whenever. it
unavoid rbly occu:s." But, in the teeth of this obvious
policy, the country sees her resources wasted on ob-
jects she really cares not one farthing about ; and the
day of retrenchment postponed, and her financial
difficulties increased, by the very hands which should,
had it been guided by common discretion, have pur-
sued a ditectly opposite course. The political demise
of Lord Liverpool certainly was a calamity. It
brought into office a man of great genius and of
warm imagination—whose genius and imagination,
whale controlled by superior wisdom, were, like in-
giedients in certain mixtures. pleasant to the pa.
late, and useful t.r the body, but alone, and in the
ascendant, soon lost all use or gratification, and have
entailed upon the coun,try evils out of which it will
lequire great skit to exit icate her. But the greater the
difficulties, and more especially the financial ones, of the
country, the less can she afford to lose men so competent
to grapple with them as Mr. I luskisson and Mr.Herries.
As for Lord Goderich, he seems to be lost in the crowd.
lie was induced to undertake a task to which neither
his mind nor body appear to have been equal. No sooner'
is there a ;light commotion in the garrison, than he
declares the whole in a state of mutiny, and renounces
the command. Let all men do so under similar cit.-
lumstances, and the whole frame of society may fall to
pieces. No men are tit for command who are mere
parade Generals; nor is any man great who cannot be
so on great occasions.

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Whigs know well enough that Mr. I-lefties is no" a m.n
either to brook such an indignity, or to suffer the lore- ,
rests of his c, unity tt, be sacrificed to the fur poses of
faction. He of course, as they especrest and intended '
rejec•ed their irregular and pre.timptis• its norninAti
resting upon the gri und of reel na ional advantage, And
dote mired that the pr peed ta-c should beaimp,irtiall%
assior ed to men considerately selected from both side,
of the live-e, and that a Member fully es pet incd in the
business of Finance should be appointed as Chairman;
instead of yielding to the wishes of the Whigs to torn the
whole business to factious and dangerous ptirpo es:—
This, we have before stated, the Whigs attfully allege
as the immediate cause of the breaking up of the
Administration, and upon the strength of which
they, adding to their total disregard of the public inte-
rest, the grossest insult to public unsierstanding, vainly
hope to obtain great popularity in the country, as mar-
tyrs in the cause of retrenchment and economy. The
Whigs have seldom taken a very accurate measure of
the good sense of the people of England ; but perhaps
they never erred so egregiously in this respect as upon
the present occasion.
But the causes of the great and glorious change
now before us •are, after all, of minor importance.—
That we shall have a Nlinistry worthy of the Nation's
confidence—a Ministry composed of men of talent
and integrity--of men who can understand, and
esteem, and confide in each other—these is nos.,
not the slightest reason to doubt. We have indeed
no fear that our congratulations to the Country on the
formation of such an Administration can be premature,
founded as they are upon the joyous fact of our gracious
Monarch having committed the task of selecting its
Members into the hands of the great', the upright, the
—ustrious Wellington.

justice of which every man of even ordinary information must in
common fairness subscribe. The letter, it will he observed from
its date, was written before the dis4olotion of the late Ministry.
and in reply to an article in a Paper of Thursday :
" If there is any family in England distinguished for its antiquity
and nobleness of descent, it is that of Mr. ['ferries. He stands at
the head of one of the oldest Houses in the Empire. The first
[ferries upon record was one of the most distinguished Salon Earls,
who, disdaining to live under the thraldom of the Not man Con-
queror. fled with his exiled Princess to the coast of the Scottish
Monarch, and was endowed with several ample manors in the
Northern kingdom. His descendant joined the banner of Richard
the First, was ;distingd:shed warrior in the Holy Land, and on his
return received very extensive grants Pf Lind in England, particu-
larly in Notts, Northampton, and York. as may• be seen in the
' Testa de Neville' and other ancient Records. His family was
ennobled in 'Scotland more than four hundred years ago, and if the
Right Hun. John Chitties would take the trouble to make out his
claim, he might now be Lord Herries, of Tregglea•
" Mr. Herries never was a Treasury Clerk. From being Private
Secretary to Mr. Percival (the Prime Minister of England). he
was made Commissary in Chief of the British Army, and when
be retired from that most laborious office, be was constituted
Audito, of the Civil List, and afterwatds he was appointed Seers-
Lary of the Treasury ; and, Sir, there is no man in England that
understands the finances of this country half so well—no man half
so fit for the situation he now holds."