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    very affair of the Irish Coercion Bill , which has broken up the Ministry , exemplifies . It was believed , even before the late disclosures , that the renewal of the Coercion Bill had been forced upon the other Members of the Cabinet by Lord Grey . It is well known that to Lord Grey are to be attributed all the foolish ebullitions of the Ministry , in King ' s Speeches

    and otherwise , against Mr . O'Connell . This could not but be . Irish agitation and Mr . O'Connell , mvst appear in a quite other light to Lord Grey than to Reformers of a less antiquated school . To others they may seem the exceptionable , and even dangerous , but most efficacious , instruments of the accomplishment of a great public good : to him they cannot but appear as noxious influences , which , by bringing a

    country to the verge of anarchy , force upon Parliament the adoption of measures , which , although justifiably conceded to necessity , are in them-* selves wholly to be deprecated . Let Mr . O'Connell be what he will , to us he is the enemy of evil , to Lord Grey he is the enemy of good . Lord ^ Grey therefore regards him with aversion , and would pass Coercion Bills ^ b re strain his operations . The other Ministers perhaps think no better of the man , but they probably think quite as much good as evil of the effects of his influence .

    In losing Lord Grey the Cabinet has lost the greater part of such weight of personal reputation as it possessed ; it will now have little strength , save that which it may derive from its measures . We fear it has lost most of its real strength of character also ; it will now be a mere straw on the surface of the waters ; it will drift forward with the current , or backward with the eddy ; it will be more afraid of the people , but also more afraid of the Peers . In Lord Grey , what seemed fear of

    the Peers was , we believe sincerely , fear for the Peers ; he could not bear that their obstinacy should ruin them ; he threw himself between them and the people , and spared them the shock of a conflict with public opinion , by bearing the brunt of it himself . The present Ministers will do nothing of tliis sort . Truckle to the Lords they may , if the people will let them ; but ( except Lord Lansdowne and perhaps one other at most ) we doubt if there is a man among them who , if he thought circumstances required it , would not turn tne whole order out of doors

    without a pang . The people , therefore , have their cause in their own hands . Let them make it less trouble to quarrel with the Lords than with them , and their object , whatever it be , will quite surely be gained . 23 d July . —Lord Brougham ' s Speech on the Poor Law Amendment Bill . —We have never studied to direct the reader ' s attention to the

    infirmities of individuals ; and we are least of all inclined to dwell upon those of the Lord Chancellor ; because , with many weaknesses , and even some littlenesses , we believe him to have higher and better aspirations , and a more genuine sympathy with mankind , than any other man in power , or who has held power in England for many years . We shall therefore , of all his recent exhibitions in the House of Lord * ( by which he little knows how grievously he has lost ground in public estimation , ) confine ourselves to the most recent , that on the Poor Law Bill ; and to this we shall advert solely for the purpose of disconnecting that Bill from the speculative opinions in disapprobation o > Poor Laws in general , with which Lord Brougham , on his own

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1834, page 596, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2636/page/66/