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    we wish to point out in his orations is the High Church notion of the saoredness of property . He censures the Whigs for abstaining from touching the appropriation of land which had been acquired by spoliation and robbery / and specifies the estates of the Duke of Bedford , which some ages since were alienated from the Church , as an instance . This illustration was received with

    ' loud cheers / and ' three tremendous volleys of groans for the Duke of Bedford . ' Very good . The greedy locusts no doubt have swallow enough to gorge Woburn whole , with all its appurtenances . But then the impudence of talking about property in the same breath , declaiming against its violation , and demanding that that of the clergy ' should be dealt , with in the same manner

    as other property is . ' The stupidity of these clerical diners must have been equal to their rapacity . When did the Duke of Bedford ' s estates belong to the Protestant Church of England ? If there be any valid ecclesiastical claim to them it is that of the Catholic Church , which would , on the same principle , be valid also for all the possessions of Dr . Etough ' s Church , his own ' rectory of Claydon' included . Talk of public robbery , indeed !

    Not even the abominable plan for despoiling the public creditor had a tithe of the impudence of this clerical pro jet . When will these men learn that they have no property ; that they are the State's hired servants ; and that although their wages have been usually paid for life , yet that their neglect of duty , their idle , mischievous , plundering , and insulting propensities , may induce the spieedy revision of an arrangement which never has worked well , nor ever will ?

    The Princi ple of the Whig Administration . — Lord John Russell ' speech to his constituents , delivered at Totnes , Dec . 2 , is a very able and manly effusion . But there is one portion of it which his auditors were somewhat precipitate in applauding * . It declares the secret of the weakness of the late Government , of its

    loss of character , and of the utter want of sympathy with its fall except as that fall involved the appointment of the Duke of Wellington . He says , * It was the principle of Lord Grey ' s Government to carry into effect as many reforms as they could with the concurrence of all the branches of the Legislature ; that is to say , not unnecessarily to bring before Parliament , and pass through the House of Commons , measures which would only go into the House of Lords to meet with certain defeat . ' A more

    false or fatal principle could not have been adopted . Its obvious tendency was to cut down every measure of Reform to the will , not of a responsible Tory Government , but of an irresponsible Tory Opposition . And for this mutilation , it held up the Ministers themselves as accountable to the nation . No set of men ought to have Jiekl office on such a princi p le ; they could onl y be disgraced thereby . And if it be said that they did much

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    The Principle of the Whig Administration . 63

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 63, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/63/