Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-01-01

ermnation of the Cntholic question. It not his
d unl It was + "m bis in linn ION 20 cast I'm
putatons upon ar man. b" stilI h waH bound IN
fairness "a say, that Il ms Maj iys q vPrnmSai had
b. pson,-i, supported upon Ia q stnn--itit had
been Supported as vehcmCn. ]: as Ii bern opposed
If in ITS Efforts heal the divis OF If and IT
had not bon 'hWtr,"d that country wouli now
have been in a wy diie~cnt ate -tHear, hearty
Tho n ID" Y scou" and th Noble Duke had com
planned Of the cxcc~ i've prvrr'y % Irrland No
man. either in hat counry or in this Could be
painfully awar han h IN" Duke of w lingtn)
was "f the rnv rtv Of the Irish, aud the
great Inconvenience and dang = TO the empr" r suit
ing from! the 4 porahle state Of he lower urdes;
b. hn ulust her tn Noble Lord to reflect that il was
not hy coming that II pn.' and b. king their
Lordshps Of tie verify of ;h people, that the poor
could b. relieved "r that the resulting from that
poverty coud b. remedind IF they wished o ran
GrIiijS" lrca ID the way was p'rsuadc those who
had money buy estates and set IL in that
and to employ their capital lis Improvement, If
persons Of estate and property thai country would
reside in it and spend their incomes there. they would
do more TO raTqnlize It than all the measures which
His MaieSty's Ministers could adopt Irar.)--H
would now advert to part of the discussion Of that
night. in allusisi 20 portion f His MaIestys Speech
upnn subject which gavo him great pain.--hn
alluded ,otho state Of the public mnd in Kent lie
thought that the "utrnGcS uf which that coultrv had
been hc SEEM, to b. attrihut Gis re $;
Tor a. period when the population Of thu county
had u1QnstIorab'y been eXpOsed -rca or seventies
Of condition. such 0utraoHs had not taken place.-
II" should ragip that the nutrages carried on
by diff cr classes ofpcnDle Som Of h off noes had
hem committed Nv class winch was always disposed
t" break machines, which they bought land though
rightly too) W, u'd in the fir ms auce throw them
ont Of work although they did not that, eventu-
Scspr 10 Better ,.r condition G, here m ns ao s
desperate cas OF who burn and destroyed property
onages however the knew me gen
try and magrsacy of the county had told Ministers
were doing thing in their help the gentry and
ysre g:,ng then cyer, ~ ,I wv. anG aoy
q l.ctt lilo
This subject brought him what the noble lord had
sprctng putting the county in the evils
likely result from the late dIrhanccSn France The noble
lord alluded TO something IN the shape of parliamentary
orn-( Hear 1.-The Noble Lord had however candid
enough acknowledge that he prepared wuh anv
measure Of reform and he (the Duke of Wengon would
totally nnpeparct the Noble Lord Nav he on his
own part would further and that he had
heard up present vrah could i'm
degree satisfy his mind that Of representation
could be nnnved ne rendered satisfactory
country al large Than at tine (a"gher from
opposite benches He fully that the country
possessed The present legislature usyvcrci
all The good npnse> OF legislation and this degree
than legislature had answered any what
ever(I laughter the left Of the House Tie would 60
Their and say that the Legislature and the system Of representa-
ton possessed tine full and entire confidence of country
desacdiy possessed confidence discussions
the legislature had very great influence over the opinions Of
the country
go still further saw that at the present mo-
men he had imposed him the duty of forming legislature
for any country and particularly for a country Ike this in
Of great of descriptions, did
mean 10 assert that he would form such legislature as they
possessed now for the nature of man incapable m reaching
description legislature which would produce results
TIL" represrnlaon of the people contained
body of the property If country and in which the landed
interests had prepnnderang influence Under
he prepared bring any measure of
the description alluded by the Noble Lord He only
not prepared bring forward Of this nature
he you'd at declare that far he concerned
feel his duty resist such measures when proposed by
The Address was then agreed to and al half after
nine the House adjourned.
When we reflect on the state ofthe public mind of
England manifested BY the Press, the popular meet
ngs over the country, attended by the eoundest and
wealthies5 portion Of the body politc the almost in
surGcnt CONDITION Of the working clas=os-niIrn in
short it was apparent that the population ofthe king
dom, the clergy and the ars'ocracy cxcepted der1an-
ded Reform and Rerenchront with one voice Of
inlperious thupder-this speech Of the Hero of Wa
terloo can hardly be rated. as a specimen of stupid
lnfauaton and contemptuous insolcnce above the ia
nous ordonnanccs of Polignac in the preceding july
The election Of Brnugham in Yorkshire, of Hume in
Middesex, of Reformers wherever the people had a
inch Of ground to stand upon ought to have convjn
ced the Prince of Wa'erloo that the day and hour
hsd comeand that at last the spirit of Reform had
become national ard no long n o be resisted.-
But whom God meas to destroy he first makes mad
This speech Of The Prun Minister. so insolent in
terms and decisive Of the que-fion that from his
adninist ration alienation of the burthens of the
People. no reformation the Government, was to be
tonad for inf med the public mind in the highest de-
gree "hich acting Parliament. produced that
vote Sir IL Parnes motion on the 18th, which
leaving Ministers in minority, their abdicaton fol-
lowed as a matter of course.
The great problem, whether this is mere Minis
teTial Revolution. or the commencement Of a Rovn-
lu.ioa in The forr Of Government ITSELF remains to be
solved by events. Dor ourselves we consider it
the latter. We in this country, have tto conception
Of thr diffusion of Republican feeling in England Of
the dctesta'ion in which the Mobility, bur nbovc all,
the lizy and insoeut clergy Of the Church of Enr-
land are beld When the poor laborer, who with
I'll" greatest difficulty finds bread to put in the mouths
of his children, is compelled to surrender tytho
OF his Industry 20 tic Priest whose tcnc,s he dis
approves, and whose life Of ddiiag and fcasing he
Indignantly compares with the soemniy Of his CALI
in@-'t is difficult to imagine the burning Indignation
which SO justly animatcs him. GToanrrs r,nIo' che