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    ik'the House . You will direct the one power against the Church , and the other power against the Peerage . You are a blind Samson , my Lord Duke , pulling down the pillars of the temple which you purpose to uphold . The mischief of it is , not that you must fail to sustain them , but that you will occasion their

    preci p itate fall in the worst way for all parties . Nor is this all . You will bring into discussion a topic which has yet been scarcely touched . Not a twelvemonth can you remain in office without stirring up men ' s minds to think , and their tongues to talk , and their pens to write , on the utility or inutility of monarchy itself . It will not do again , and so soon too , for a great public calamity to be ascribed to the irresponsible volition of the sovereign . It will not do again to make the throne a shield

    for Toryism against public reprobation . The royal veto on acts of Parliament has long been practically defunct . No one doubts that any attempt to revive it would be perilous . And yet the royal choice of ministers had become as completely a mere form as the veto . It had , substantially , devolved on Parliament . To call it into exercise as a personal , irresponsible power , is to raise a thousand questionings that would have been dormant for generations

    to come . Personal caprice will not be endured as a preponderating element in the government of a great nation . You will make the tongues of millions demand why the partialities of one man should prevail against their desires , their interests , their prospects . You will create a republican party . O ' Connell was praising hereditary monarchy to a multitude the other day , and telling them

    that the security of the cottage was preserved by the stability of the throne . You will make the O'Connells of next year , or the year after , speak a different language . You will make them demand whether cottages be more secure in England than in America ; and you will hear the response in thunder . Oh if the king understood his own interests and those of his successors , ( if ,

    indeed , the condition of royalty be a real interest to its possessors , ) he would shun you , your counsels , and your party , as a pestilence . He would recall , if possible , the days when all voices were loud in the laudation of William the Reformer . He would revive the feeling of the time when it was said , that in France a man had

    been exalted into a king , but that in England a king had been exalted into a man . Take pity , my Lord Duke , on monarchy . Deprive it not of its best lustre . The twenty-first of August it approaching ; blot it not in the people ' s calendar . Your minion * Rate announced it for the day of your restoration . If it be , the Wrth-day of your new power will shine on a formidable twin . Thd spirit of republicanism will come into this our British world

    at the same moment . Its rapid growth will soon def y your bayonets * jt& efcnnon , your laws and prisons The present conflicts of par ' tfctf will feeem a petty strife to the war of opinion which will then ensue ; and when opinions become republican , it will not be very long before the empire will become a republic .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 506, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/6/