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      PjtOM time to time , my Lord Duke , the rumour comes abroad that you are about to play over again the game of last November , and that we shall soon have auother dismissal of Ministers , and another dissolution of Parliament . For the sake of those institutions of which you profess to be the champion , for the sake of the party that looks up to you as its leader , nay , for your own sake , it behoves you to beware . You have the power , no doubt ; but it

      will be exercised the second time with far more peril than it was the first . Repeated offeaces against even that tame and forgiving creature the British public , are not now to be committed with impunity . It may be that whenever you so please there will be a renewal of that anomalous exercise of the royal prerogative , by which the King ' s responsible advisers have once been changed , with no adviser who was responsible for the change . Or it may be that , at your Grace ' s signal , a majority of Tory Lords and Tory Bishops will confer a more decorous form on such a change , by rejecting or mutilating one or other of the great and beneficial measures now in progress . But in either case the mischief will lie at your door . The people will know whom to

      curse ; and accursed you will be held by millions of your countrymen : by the millions of Great Britain ; and the yet more deeply injured millions of your native island , fierce in the bitterness of blasted hopes , the moment after those hopes began to brighten . It is well for a man to calculate carefully , before he makes himself the object of such feelings as will fix themselves on you should there be another counter-revolution in his Majesty ' s councils . Moral offences have ere now become legal ones after their commission . There are provocations so great that they reconcile men ' s feelings to that ex post facto judgment which in ordinary cases is abhorred as injustice . This may seem an unworthy consideration for a hero ; but your Grace ' s laurels have been won rather by wielding the baton of the General than the sabre of the soldier , and Generals are often men of calculation . I believe you to be so , according to your ability . I wish to assist vour calculations .

      Suppose Lord Melbourne and his coadjutors again kicked down stairs , the question will instantly occur which you yourself put , on the Reform Bill ; * How is his Majesty ' s Government to Oe carried on ?* Do you intend to govern with the present House of Commons ? Truly that seems an heroic undertaking . A tolerable trial has been made already . Beaten on the Speaker-• hip—beaten on the Address—beaten on the London University Charter—and finally and decisively beaten on the Irish Church

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 501, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/1/