THE 



MONTHLY MAGAZINE, 



OF 



POLITICS, LITERATURE, AND THE BELLES LETTRES. 

 VOL. XIV.] AUGUST, 1832. [No. 80. 



HINTS TO ELECTORS. 



THE nation is called on to strain all her nerves, to return a popular 

 House of Commons, were it but to satisfy the unhappy Lords and Gen- 

 tlemen of the fallen party, who are ever teasing us with the question, 

 " What good will Reform do you, now you have got it ?" We ought 

 surely to satisfy them as soon as possible on this point. Let us do it, 

 not by defining, but by the more lively and impressive method of shew- 

 ing. It is Locke, we believe, who mentions these two ways of conveying 

 information. . Each has its advantages ; but the latter seems best calcu- 

 lated for enlightening Tory intellects. Let us, therefore, give over 

 telling them what we expect from Parliamentary Reform ; and make all 

 the despatch we can, to give them ocular and tangible evidence of what 

 we have been enabled to achieve by it. 



Political pwoer, delegated to the nation, is a sacred trust, which can- 

 not be abused without a breach of moral as well as of social obligation ; 

 and that the man who either uses this power negligently or corruptly, 

 violates two duties of the highest order ; no matter how industrious he 

 may be at his trade, or respectable in his family, he is a borough- 

 monger in heart, and a bishop in principle. 



Let us return such a House as will not let pass the first session, with- 

 out taking some decisive measures to cleanse the Augean stable of the 

 church, and relieve the Right Reverend Bench from its legislative 

 labours. Let us return such a House, as will at once repeal the Six 

 Acts and the Corn Laws, and give the country cheap bread and cheap 

 newspapers. Let us return such a House, as will abolish, the first 

 month of its sitting, the use of torture in the army and in the colonies. 

 Let us return a House, that will lose no time to rid the nation of the 

 enormous burthen of supporting, by sinecure places and pension lists, 

 the idle and insolent progeny of the wealthiest aristocracy in Europe 

 a House that will lose no time to inform that aristocracy, that hencefor- 

 ward they must condescend to bring up their offspring in the paths of 

 honest industry, or encumber their own estates, to support them in 

 proud uselessness; for that the days of salary without service, and 

 reward without merit, are past for ever. Let us return a House that 

 will do this, and we shall have but to appeal to the senses of the Tories, 



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