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    there existed a human being in whom selfishness destroyed human feeling , the fourth Guelph was that man . The understanding * of Lord Durham nmst have been \ itterljr prostrate when he made this speech , or it must have been a piece of irony too deep for ordinary apprehension . In his speech on the Reform Bill , in April 1832 , he speaks thus of the Marquis of Londonderry :

    My Lords , I will retaliate nothing ; I will make use of no harsh expressions towards the noble Marquis , for whom I have formerly entertained great respect and personal friendship . * Now , is this possible ? Can Lord Durham ever have so defiled his own nature as to respect this gross , bad man . If these be words of course , spoken in courtesy , they are unworthy of an

    honest man . If they be meant in sincerity , what must be the intellect of Lord Durham if he can have entertained friendship for Lord Londonderry ? We must not yet say , noscitur a sociis ; we must believe that he has only complied with Parliamentary falsehood . Let him carefully eschew these things , or he will forfeit his hold on the people .

    In his speech , in October 1834 , to the Political Union of Dundee , he shows that his judgment as to forms of government , is not of the soundest , but it is no impeachment of his honesty : 4 confess that , if I believed all that is stated in the address of the Political Union , I should despair of the prosperity of my country ; but I do not believe that every thing is in such a state as is there represented . Much I know remains to be done , and with your assistance it shall be

    done ; but I do not believe that all is so bad and rotten in our institutions as is set forth in this address . My object is not to destroy and reconstruct , but to ameliorate and to amend . There is much that is good and valuable in our institutions , if it were fairly drawn out ; but much of this lias , through Tory misrule , been perverted to other purposes . I hold , that in our form of government , by King , Lords , and Commons , there will be found as great a degree of liberty as ever existed in any other country of the world , and as much rational liberty as any people

    under the sun can or ought to enjoy . ( Cheers . ) I ask you of the working classes , who are the sinews of the State , what would be the consequence of any system calculated to produce confusion ? I am not aware of any class that would suffer more from such a state than the operatives . Any thing which tends to derange the laws which regulate the employment of capital and labour , must necessarily tend to destroy the mercantile and agricultural prosperity of the country ; and , if you take my advice , you will take care that when you ameliorate you do not destroy . '

    In his speech of November 1834 , at the dinner at Newcastle , there is another evidence of his favourite weakness : Another cry is , " The monarchy is in danger ! " From whom ? ( Hear . ) I look around to the north , the south , the east , and the west , and I never hear a word uttered bearing the Bemblance of the shade of a

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1835, page 266, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2644/page/42/