The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-04 00:00:00

T".l' D"ZDON

MINISTERIAL PROFESSION OF PROPAGIND SM,—LoRD
ALTHORP'S SPEECH.
We beg of the-Morning Herald, Morning-. Chronicle,
Globe, Sun, Courier, and -Times, and all the other jour-
nals that support his Majesty's ministers, whether disin-
terestedly or for wages, we beg of all and each to explain
WHY THEY HAVE NOT PUBLISHED (ThRD
NORTHAIkIPTON ELECTION SPEECH ? The speech is the
speech of a cabinet minister,not only of a cabinet mi-
nister, but of the finance minister,—not only of the
finance minister, but of the most ostensible of all. mini-
sters, the ministerial leader in the House of Commons;
the speech, too, was delivered soon after dinner, reported,
no doubt, by the noble lord's own hand, and certainly
published in his own journal; and, as it sttinds, it is the
best speed' of Lord Althorp that we have seen. Why
then, we repeat, do not the ministerial journals aid us in
giving to this European- document a European circula-
tion ? There is, no doubt; a gratification- irv-beckoning
modest merit from the shade, for the enjoyment 'of a
. greater share of which,•in Lord Althorp's case; we' are
indebted to the•journals muted.; but though from three
• or four of them we have. always received- kindness and
courtesy, we doubt whether any, even, of these, would
neglect a reforming Chancellor of the Exchequer, merely
that we might have the • gratification of. obliginc, ;
while of the others some are so little fdnd of 'the Stand-
ard, that this hypothesis would be a dull joke in reference
to them. We are afraid, but the truth must he told,
that the ministerial journals are ashamed of the noble
lord's speech, as otherwise it is -impossible to conceive
why they do not help in giving it to the world; like Lord
:Niihau's Epistolary Dragonades upon the. Widlow
election, this effusion of new Whig eloquence- can find
no approach to the puhlic•-saveAhrough • the conservative
journals; and in what'a degrading light does this system
of wretched self-confe-ssed duplicity exhibit Lord. Nithorp
and his colleagues? What would be thonght,..and 'what
would this Times and its yoke-fellows yelp of any conser-
vative peer whose letterg-or speeches every conservative
journal would be afraid or as/lamed to print .? and Lord
Milton is a patriot, and Lord Althorp is a Minister !
Standard.

The speech which we proceed to reprint is a 'European
document of the highest imaginable interest, and;,there-
fore; entitled to the most proininent'place in our-column•.
Even to foreigners it cannot be unknown that. Lord Al-
thorp, along with being the minister of finance, is the
special acknowledged organ of the cabinet in the House
of Commons, or, as it is popularly called, the "ministe-
rial leader" in that assembly. A deliberate public avowal
of any particular course ofpolicrby this nobleman must,
therefore, be taken as the manifesto of the government;
and never, beyond question, did a British minister pro-
mulgate a manifesto of more awful import: It is. not a
war that it threatens, but a long succession of wan,—
not the hostility of a single state which it challenges, but
the enmity of e►ery regular monarchy. of the civilized
world, not an object of easy or probable attainment which
it proposes, but nothing less than to revolutionise all
Europe ! But the reader shall have the noble. Chancellor
of the Exchequer's own words :

With regard to our foreign policy, he must state that the
interests of r ranee and England were at this time stronger [he
meant, are at this time more strongly, brit it is right that he
should discard the En/AA languar„,,e in avowing such opinions]
united together than they had ever been at any former period,
and it was their duty, in the protection of their mutual [com-
mon] interests, to check every aggression of despotic power,
UNTIL THEY SAW TILL TRIUMPH OF LIBERAL PRINCIPLES
TIILIOUGHOUT EUROPE."

There—is a Christmas gift for the cabinets of Vienna
.and St, Petersburgh—fl,r the Kings of Prussia, Hano-
er, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, and Naples, for, in short,
every one (except the King of the Netherlands, who has
been already served,) that is unwilling to bring the go-
ernment of his state to scale, according to the notion of
liberal opinions received and accepted by Lord Grey and
Marshal Soult.

The style of Lord Althorp's eloquence and of his lord-
ship's literary, composition, is too well known in thiS
country to make it necessary, at home, to verify the
.Speech before us, merely because of its bad English and
bad grammar. The portentous audacity of its menaces
may, however, cause, both in England and abroad, some
doubts of its authenticity. We can remove those doubts
at once by stating, that the extract which follows is co-
pied from a revolutionary Northamptonshire journal;
which, if not Lord Althorp's property, is certainly the
object of his especial patronage. The report is given,
too, after a considerable interval of time, so that no er-
rors of haste or inadvertence can be supposed, for the
speech was delivered at the noble lord's election dinner
on Friday, Dec. 14 :

" E. Bouverie, Esq. proposed His Majesty's ministers.'
• This was drunk upstanding, with thred times three, and tre-
mendous cheering.
" Lord Althorp rose and said, it -Was most gratifying to him
to find that his Majesty's ministers received the tribute of popu-
lar esteem. (Hear.) It ought to be so; but such had not
always been the case; fer the ministry of a free country ought
to be composed of such men as received the approbation of their
fello'w-countrymen. (Cheers.) When the present ministers
came into office, which was in times of great difficulty, the task
which they undertook was of no ordinary description. Consi-
dering the various circumstances by which the country was
agitated, and the numerous interests, the welfare of which they
had to support, without neglecting one fur the advantage, of
the other, his Majesty's ministers thought it most advisable to-
make a pledge of those principles upon which they intended to
act; and they accordingly made three distinct and important
measures their principal aim to carry into effect and ensure
their continuance. These great objects were—Peace—Reform
—and Economy. (Cheers.) Reform had already been effected;
and in redeeming that pledge, the ministers had brought for-
ward such a complete measure of reform as very few of its
strongest advocates expected. With respect to peace, he could
assure them that he never was attached to war ; and if a war-
like appearance was now exhibited by this country towards
Holland, he would inform them of the motives which had go-
verned the conduct of the present administration on that sub-
ject. When they entered office, they found that a separation
had taken place between Holland and Belgium; andif 'things
had remained in the same state as at that time, there would
have been no necessity for the present hostile- proceedings.
.But the King of Holland retained possession of a portion of
„Belgium, which, according to the treaty, he ought to have no
longer occupied; and it was therefore the duty of this country
to preserve the peace of Europe. It had been stated that in the
present proceedings England had truckled to France; but he
tcgged to say that if England and France had not resolved to
-obtain satisfaction for the insults which both countries had re-
ceived, and allowed the Kibg of Holland to retain possession
.of Aniwerp until spring, a general war Would have been the
consequence. He hoped, therefore, that by the decisive meu,
sures which had been taken, the war with Rolland would
speedily terminate, without extending any further throughout
Europe. (Cheers.) With re and to our foreign policy, he must
state that the interests of England and France were at this
tithe stronger united together than they had ever been at any
:firmer period; and itwas their duty, in the protection of their
-mutual interests, to check every aggression of despotic yowler,
t•isTir, 'THEY SAW THE TRH. MPH OF LIBERAL PRINCIPLES •
THROCMIot T EUROPE. (Cheers.) With respect to the late
tinfottunate proceedings in Poland, if England had interfered
it Would- have 'occasioned an extended war over the continent;
whereas.the Presentwarlike appearances against Holland would
tend to prevent war, rather than extend it. His lordship next
alluded• to tha.pledge of- economy; and in reference to that he
*would•-state, float during the past year a reduction of two mil-
lions. had :Yakein:place in .the. pufilie expenditure. They had
'abolished a number of places, and the march of economy would
not step .here, but would proceed until they redirCed -the na-
tional burdens as much as ossible, consistent with the faith of
-the public creditor. But the interest- of the debt must be paid ;
and when that was taken into consideration, the ministers had
no more than twelve millions out of the fifty millions of annual
revenue, to meet the necessary expenses of government. Their

\enemies had vainly talked of reducing the expenditure twenty-
ke‘tirmillions ; forthat.could never be done, unless they could
demonstrate, by any means, that two and two made more than
four. Suffice it to say that.. they had entered office when they
had a surplus of• revenue. Having made a' statement of the
pledges which the ministers had-given' as well as the manner
to whieh'they had proceeded fer-the.benetit of the country, he
begged to express his deep-felt thanks for the compliment which
they had paid to himself and his colleagues in office. His lord-
ship sat down amid loud acclamations."—Standard.