The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-08-20 00:00:00

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LONDON:
TUESDAY ETSNINO, AUGUST 20, 1122.

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CHANGE OF MINISTRY.

If we were to give credit to the rumours which ate
dolt, we should Ise ready to believe, that this Ptmtwa
set would be, at last, broken up. it le said, that, Is
a certain garotter, there was a resat:the to snake a
change even before oar great hole-digger laid violent
bands on himself. We has* no ample to say, that
we do not believe a word of Ike wetter. But, if
such a resolution were taken I. that spier,ter, we have
no doubt that it could be of se Mali; People de not
seem to consider, that, to chair the Ministry could
oily tend to show the otter impossibiliey of carrying
en the system. Those who would come Into power Most
come with a resolution to do soinetisin °lrak would give
electeal relief to the country; anti it,le impossibly
to give such relief wiihoat such sr missiles Ast tam-
don as would reader it impossible so pay she interest
of the Debt in bill Breves if the it Ilona weight," as
the Ministers call it, and' the live vreitlnitlefm set
fared to tamale altogether unpaid., i; ,
It b:Wit tra•;:tbills is • olomiltiticallifdliegtmaki
considiiitltia. that eiPiaitoooNsaatioaribauldl have
10"1.4411 ta M!Pm. who' 411, viewitind
have bees insane while he was leadim lehilaStaJfell•
Misistry could not possibly Illicyopeless fitaaw•Masti.,
ply his Pliet, still they most hare Isite:11114.41110,
Hume must, be lid by him, aolsacia. be ewashol Is
teaks a radical chimes of the ?system. ,110.14114111sb;
we do anticipate a geed 'slat of
amongst those who have the power to 0044*
fuse supplies of motley. These persons, anf,poelimi-
tarty that part of them who have !Dolt weight sod if-•
A in the several counties of the kiogdolii4
been accustomed, for a lose time, to i•to-541-
&&&&&;sor as a. sore of emeeesor of
say, as a'man abli by some 'mimes or inst 41/oPet
them through thole difficulties ; ditheeltim ohialtilmet
saw themselves much more clearly than bw4M t bit,
still, scores of them, etch with a vast deal been mute
and talent than he, leaned on him as's 'pill Mshist
their dangers. This miy seem strange; bat it le iot the
less true for being strange. We have tot sho.small-
est Mutt: that Gareaft Goocu, Sir TROAII.II LAMA.
canna, Mr. [focus SURNIII, Mr. STUART Worms,
and many others, who have appeared to regireliqnl
as a superior being, have, each of them, tea tb.ei
real judgment and talent that he had ; house. it is
mat to impossible for a man to have less of either;
and this we have been saying fur years sad have
proved a thousand times over. But, there Is a good
deal in habit; and in no habit more than that of
pinuing noes faith on another's sleeve. Such men as
those that we hare in our eye have never thought
for themselves; till, at last, to rely on the judgment
of others has become part of the character of their
meads. The weight of office is also prodigious In pro-
ducing that species of subjection of which we pre
speaking. It we see a man with a gown and wig ow,
for installer., it requires positive evidence to make as
believe that Le is net 1 d In the law. The very
name of Doctor of D: laity demands proof to mak;
us believe that the man is not pions; to hare been a
Minister for twenty years; to have represented the
limo at a Congress of Sovereigns; to bare been a
leader of the House of Commons for ten years; to
have been, in short, the man selected on all occa-
sions to bear the brunt in difficult circumstances:—
these, upon the face of them, demand a belief is his
talents and resources of mind. We tergsrusH they

while. who those ere by whom be has been selected
and empowered: we take the Ace as an evidence
of the talent, and we place oar reliance accordingly.

To these we must add the coo6.lent meaner ; the
artful ; the sort of oracular phraseology of the
man. Perhaps, and most likely, this was not the ef-
fect of design, but that of a happy confusion of ideas.
Impudence was the main ingredient. Men of
common modesty, who not equally impudent, could
not bring themselves to believe, that there was nothing
in the bead of such a man , nor could they reconcile
it to any thing like reason, that so many other men
could suffer him to stand above theta in (Az* unless
upon the ground of their oemviction of his superiority.
Hence it was that C t ITLEIMAG:I ground at his heel*
men, and many men, of good natural abilities. It must
be confessed, that he was a good deal shakes in their
opinions, during the last session of parliament. That
resource of mind, for which he had so long had credit,
was found to be wanting in him ; and he himself
was )nade to perceive that the discovery had bees
made: ileve►theless, he still retained a large portion of

the confidence of the persons of whom w; ha►e been
speal,i-g, iyow, howe►er, he is not only gone, bit'