Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-03-24

iuncture; the King, again, should appoint
Chancellor entitled T. The confidence Of the
country as the highest Judge.
Given in the Church, The ordinary liVlngs OF
which are the property of every purch lser, a
certain difference TO public opinion ard feeling
ought to be manifested in the disposal OF the
higher dgnities. IL would be considered i'm
proper, for instance, 10 reward Lieutenant
who has distinguished himself in skirmlshes
with smuggers, with orders, and one OF the
hes, of,he Liviags in the gift ofthe Chancellor.
We cannot, Therefore, wonder that the country
should not have been prepared for this exer-
else ofthc Royal authority II the Emperor
Paul should have made Suwaroff his Prime
Minister, the act would have been supposed
in character; bat George the fourth has always
been supposed tremblingly alive To the susges>
lions of propriety, and able to distinguish be-
tween the claims 10 private. intimacy and the
claimsto public conf leEcc. All things are not
surely farce, if Country Meetings are. Yet
what On more resemble a farce than the elrva-
ting TO the highest Office in the Administration
q man for whose indiscreel language 1t has
more than once been necessary TO offer The APP
oloey that he unused 10 speak, aud who
must enjoy his dignity, like one Of Epcurus's
q IDS, and refused 10 take any part ~ the pup
&c deliberations ii Tie Legislature, ii ne do not
mean 10 compromise his colleagues aud the
character vi the nation by his indi>creilons or
his solecisms. That any purely military man
should have seat in the Cabine, al ali, even
though filing department connected with
military affairs, as he Ordnance for instance,
IS, proposition liable TO considerable difficulty.
| If soldier in the Cabiaet were TO vote on mil,
iary affairs, Ill would he well; but the vote OF
that soldier counts IN The Cabinet Tor as much
| as ,ha, Of he man who has made ;he affairs oil
the nation he study Of his life. -
"rhe Duke Of Wellington is soldier, and
| only soldier. We say nothing as to his ora
| tory, because, though he power oi speaking
fluenuy must he always Of great utility to a
| minister in country like this, man may pos
sess An intellect Of The highest order without
being Hurnl speaker. But the Duke OF Wei
! lngton's habils and pursuits have not been OF
a nature TO enable hin 10 possess that knows
edge which we should think indispensable TO
a minister, and especially Premier. The va
rlous subjects which ought to engage The atten
ton of cabinet canno; be Judged of separately
nor per sAllnm, Their question IS first agllated.
! Take any one question, for instance, that may
occupy Parliament, as the poor laws, or the
! state Of crime, and VINE. consider how much
knowledge a man ought 10 possess before he
prcsumes to pronounce on il. The poor laws.
| for ms ance, Involve nearly the whole held OF
| Political Economy. The doctrine Of popula-
ton, the different rates at which population *
the means of employment increase, the manner
in which the equilibrium Can be restored 1t lost
| the liz hit derivable from the domestic history
of this country rs 10 the resources which may
| be found in laws Of settlement for supplying,
! BY the care Of the rich, the want Of prudence
in Tue poor; these, and hundred other points,
Iheincrease or crime, the other subject TO
which we allude to be estimated correctly, sup
poses knowledge Of Legislation and political
economy. The phenomena which fill society
with so much alarm, are the result Of a combl-
nation OF causes, among which are defective
penal laws, and extreme poverty. AS in all
states oil society there will be some poore than
others, and mare vicious than others, defective
penal laws must always afford encouragement,
10 crime; but on the other hand, no laws, howe
YER perfect, can be proof against the drspera-
ton created by extreme misery. We instance
those Two cases among the numbers that must
occupy Parliament, to sho" how impossible
i: is for man educated like she Duke, who has
never had the leisure for enquiry, even if he
had the inclination, 10 be competent Judge Of
the ubiec,s that must be discussed in cabinet |
We presume that no one would say tia min
lister ought 10 decide without knowledge, or
that he is not called on to do more III an merely
enjoy his salary No man will say that any
man ought TO be appointed to The Bench, with
out regard 70 previous pursuits and studies"