Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-02-16

which is decidedly the best we have yet snrn in re- laton to the overthrow of the Wellington Adminis- tration It is attributed to the pen of a gentleman now residing in Pennsylvania, who llas retired from public life-a great observer of human actions, and who, as minister from this country resided many years at the court of St. James, where he became familiar with its leading men and measures. So lar the fortunes of Marlborough and of Wellington ap- pear to have been alike.
 From the Pennsylvania Republican.
 THE CHANGE OF MINISTRY IN ENGLAND.
 A late English Journalist has exclaimed, could it ever have been believed that The Duke oi Welling- ton would have been hooted and hissed as he pas sed through the streets of London?
 answer yes readily believed. Will the English forget the case of their Duke of Marlborough We know that this general, who had retrieved the glory of the British arms. many battles, taken so many towns, who had hunlbled the pride and check ed the ambition of France, secured the Liberty Of Europe Gas their own historians say.) and chained victory to his chariot wheels, fell, in few weeks in to an object of hatred and dersion; edlculed in public bels and reyiled in private conversation ; that instances were every where repeated of his fraud, avarce and extortian; of his nsoence, cruel ty, and bloody minded ambition that even his cou- rage was called in question, and this consummaie commander, represented aS the lowest of mankind.
 have taken in the above summary, almost the ve- " words of Smollett He is not indeed the first Of English historians, but is sufficient for these facts which are otherwise known to be true. Who then need utter exclamations of surprze, and an English especially, that the Duke of Wellington was hooted at in the streets. He has not been reV1led and by no possibility he ever be revied, to the extent ofthe Duke of Marlborough; because never has the breath of suspicion tainted him. Tn ways that ii often did Marlborough, however the judgment of posterity may nearly have wiped the taint of. All read history, but few care to remember its facts, or apply it's precepts The knowledge otthe past Is the best way to suppress wonder at the present, and warn us of the future. The Duke of Wellington really earned as muchol hootiug as he got; though such rude missiles of the tongue, seemed i'll flung at whom tho grateful voice of Britain had often ex- toiled to the skies. l am not going to forget his greatness, in his fall from power. There are DOT lions of his renown too soli, as well as too brilliant, ever to suffer any other than momentary eclipse. They will 0vershadow greatly the renown of hlarl- borough. But, when the more modern of these he- roes Of England, with the seals o first minister of the in his hands, could gravey rise in the House of Lords and tell his fellow peirs that he had no measure of reform to propose, at which point he ought to have stopped, bL. that he had never heard Or read of any that could in any degree tisfy his mlnd that the atate of representation in the house of commons could be improved, or rendered satisfactory to the country than it Is at present, he challenged so effcctuay the dsapprObation of the enlightened that no wonder he assaed by the hlsses of London mob THE REPREsENrAT1oN IN THE HoUsE OF COMMONS NOT CAPABLE OF IMPROVE MENT What a declaration in the face of fact pas sing by all others, that scarcely than six thou sand voters (about many we have here In York county) scattered throughout multitude of small bo- roughs chiefly owned by the peers wiio control every vote, send to the house than two hunded of its .members Cutting and sashlng at Waterloo, was all m character; but such cutting and slashing, as first Lord ofthe, Treasury frightened the boldest.- Ills grace once called country meetings tarcc and here he would have all attempts inequality of repre- senation in the house of commons, another firce.- Doctrines like these so alarming so indicative oft military mind, that preferred drilled forces on the benches of the house. to any array of new recruits whose votes might riot, naturally led to his fall Public opinion could stagger under it no longer. He had been the Idol of the nation It's love, its enlu- siasm, he had won, by his triumphant sword The sreatest man of ten centuries, Lord Holland called Napoleon, had been prostrate at his feet. But now the nation awole from its trance. Talavera Torres Vendras, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca Nttora San Sebastian, Pampeluna, Waterloo itself the trumphes and the drum the shouts that rent the air, the reiterated and solemn thanks of parliament the homage of assembled protenlates, who lowered the proud banners ofheir legons he passed along Tn token of profound admiration of his achievements all were forgotten in the deliberate verdict of public pronounced agaist his satesmanship. Itwoud not, after the avowal Of such doctrines allow him Co
 
 had been his deeds at the head of armies however universal had been the chorus of nations md empe- TOTS, and kings, from the Neva to the Mediterranean, to his valor and his general ship. The public reason suspended for while by the overpowering glare of his illustrious services in the field re-asserted is pre, and won back the conquest which the captiva- ting but perilous illusions of his martial fame had gained over it. It stands erect again. disenthrallcd and refreshed, after decisive, though temporary prostration.
 But, it is matcral in these reflections not to hide from view, a fact which is of the essence ofthem- It is material to state, that was never by the psope of England, that this great commander was placed at the head of the civil administration of the country Nor, do think, that their voice would ever have pa- ced him there, even under the claim of his countless victories. It Is rather those wiio fight the civil pat tles of the country, the Cannings. the Foxes the Chatlams, the Broughams who became the popular favorltes in England and whom the people seem most deslrous to trust. It was Hing who clothed the duke of Wellington with supreme ministerial power. It was George the Gourth king of mixed qualifications for the sceptre that he bore, but always magnificent always fond of pomp. He made him the lord high constable at the pageant of his corona tlon, adding the marshaps bat0n to his staff There lls warrior plumes as he slowly rode by the banquet tables of the great gothic Hall towards the platform where set royalty his steed richly caparisoned and champing upon the bit whilst the beauty and cliYalry of the realm, and the ambassadors of the crowned heads, stood gazing, showed sight indeed, to rive ihe eye, and fill the fancy of a There was Anglesea too, known to fame and Howard of Eiinghan l; and the champion on whose bright heavy armour, the sun beams struck. But every heart pointed to En- glands true champion, on that day. Not the Rubies the sapphires ofthe throne could rival his pumes They stirred the bosom; Mey called up high and val orOus deeds, not as lending golden tints to the vi sions of romance in the midst of such scene but a told in faithful story. The same monarch who then received the ealy of this gorgeous group afterwards invested his favourte Art.ar justly and proud lY his ayorite whenever or xherexer inc hato r ha