Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-01-06

King would not daro TO create Peers--wo"ld not
dare To oppose the Aristocracy-and would not
dare TO make common cause with popular opinion
and the lower orders, Thus they beard your Ma
lcsty with threats and swnggcrings-insuit your
Majesty by their prophecies and calculations, and
defy your Majesty to march with your pc pie, and
10 hand vonr name down TO history in the lists of
those who have been patriotic kings and the beno-
factors of the human
Aud now permit me 10 assure your Majesty, that
decree in Council, creating Il batch of Peers
would be the measure of all others which would
give TO your reign n character OF dccisop-which
would put beyond doubt the pa ssing, not of Re-
form Bill, bat of the Reform Bill which majority
of Peers venturcd TO reject, and would give NOR
tai STAB to the expiring hopes of the Cumberland
School. Nor can | imagine that your Majesty will
hesitate 10 take this step from any false Difference
to the opinion of the tind or TO he fears of those
who are never courageous, but IN the course ut
personal interest, corruption and monopoly. No,
your Majesty, the nomination of large number OF
Peers would not be u coup detat but coup dc Ia
ton ltwould be popular and yet legitimate re-
voiution, made by the nation through its King
1t would be the reorganization OF an institution
which otherwise might fall into decay. IL would
he the imparting of new life into DYING sys-
tenn. 1t would be the rcmodclling of ediiice
which was tottcring ard insecure. II would he to
make tho House Of Lords capable of marching
with new and Reformed House of Commons, for
without such an infusion OF new life blood be made
into the whole system of the British Pecrage,
the House of Lords will be fly years behind
the House OF Commons, and this will necessarily
lead To dangerous collision, and, perhaps, oven, :
to the abolition of dn Hereditary Pccragc. Thus
your Maesty will perceive, that go farther than
those who saw create 100 new Peers for the sake
of passing the Reform Bill-for | say create a
hundred new Peers should the Bill be pas
sed without such creation. Your Majesty must
be well aware that four ts of the House of Peers
are nearly century behind hand, if compared
with those who represent the public opinion of the
age in which we live. And your Majesty cannot be
ignorant of the fact, that the representatives of po
pular places in England are, in nine out of
ten, composed of men who the determined en-
emies of the Cumberland school. Nor can admit
for moment that the creation of Peers by your
Majesty will be Il dangerous precedent. There is
surely wide difference between n measure which
is taken to satisfy the wishes and accomplish the
hopes of u nation demanding improved institutions
and more national representation, and measure
merely resorted to by bad Kings to oppose the po-
puar voice, done to stifle public opinion-to sup
| national measures! No, no; history will he more
Just, as it is always more impartial than the age in
which we live; and yet that history and age will
concur in stating that the creation of Peers by Will
liam the Fourth to avert revolution, to secure
vast good, TO satisfy the wants of the people, and
to render the Institutions of Great Britain the adj
miration of the world.
May it please Your Majesty, the eyes of all Eu-
rope are directed to you. You may easily disap-
point and ca silly Cypress us, for the triumph of bad
principles and the Cumberland School in ENGLAND
will arrest the progress OF Civil and Religious Lii
| berry all the world.
! Courage! then, your Majesty! courage! and
England will have to boast of more than one AL
I fred =!
have the hone TO be, my it please your Ma
Jesty, your humble Ind obedient servant
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