THE 



MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 



VOL. I. JANUARY, 1835. No. I. 



THE NEW TORY REFORM GOVERNMENT. 



IN our last month's number, we speculated upon the probability of 

 the Tories declining to take office after all. We were, it seems, mis- 

 taken. The Tory party has not only formed itself into a government, 

 but has called upon the country for that confidence in its adminis- 

 tration, which the men composing it, and the measures heretofore 

 pursued, are so eminently calculated to excite. 



There is a degree of reckless desperation in this proceeding which 

 cannot but work well and speedily for the people. Only give the 

 Ministry rope enough, and it will hang itself, and so save the country 

 the trouble of squeezing its neck, and putting it out of its miserable 

 political existence for ever. It has said to the people of England: 



" Slaves ! I have set my life upon a cast, 

 And I will stand the hazard of the die I" 



And it is determined that the die shall be loaded with all the influence 

 of the church, as by law established, of the army, as by the Duke 

 of Wellington governed, of the king's prerogative, as by the people 

 conferred, and of the king's government, as by the Tories once more 

 obtained. 



But these influences will be exercised in vain. A Tory ministry 

 can no longer either intimidate or cajole the country. That moral 

 influence which, during the last forty years, has been gradually accu- 

 mulating, and of which the people now possess an outward symbol 

 and an efficient engine in the Reform Bill, must prove altogether too 

 much for any Ministry that is indisposed, or reluctant to carry out 

 practically those principles which have so widely obtained, and to 

 which the Tories themselves have been, at length, compelled to give 

 in their adherence. 



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