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House vote by ballot short Parliaments removal of the taxes on know- 

 ledge, &c. &c. Are we then, for want of your healing explanation, to lose 

 such services as yours ? Many of my friends here ask " If Lord Brougham 

 be honestly affected to the popular cause, why is he absent from ' the 

 people' at so critical a moment of their fate ? If England expects every 

 man to do his duty, how can he spare him, of all men how can he defraud 

 her of his help ?' With a great deal more to the same effect, dictated, no 

 doubt, by the tone of the times." 



The following remarks' are not unworthy of consideration, when it 

 is remembered that the kind of justice here contended for on behalf 

 of Lord Brougham is not such as he has met too much of lately : 



" Who can tell what peculiar difficulties may have beset the late Chan- 

 cellor, to render a cautious expression of his opinions, touching the ra- 

 pidity of the reforming process, not only expedient, but the soundest dis- 

 cretion and the best policy for the country, to save us from the very CRISIS 

 whose doubtful issue is now so fearfully impending over our heads ? Why 

 not give him credit for good intentions, as far forth as long-tried character 

 is an earnest of such ? You cannot surely have suffered yourself to be 

 warped by the aspersions of a hireling mendacity, against a life so inde- 

 fatigably spent for a quarter of a century in the people's cause, that one of 

 our poets has said he laboured enough to wear out twenty bodies. If a 

 man cannot stand upon his general character, and a life of services and 

 sacrifices, against calumny, from which no virtue is secure; if so long- tried 

 a public servant may not be silent against the ferocious attacks of noto- 

 rious venality, and smile at the dagger of the purchased libeller, the purest 

 men must be deterred from the service of their country. I can imagine a 

 Tory cunningly affecting the Liberal, though contrary to the whole evi- 

 dence of his life, for the purpose of more effectively serving the Tory cause. 

 This is the every-day tactique of the vulgarest traitor. But for a Liberal 

 to affect the Tory, contrary not only to the whole tenor of his life, but to 

 his best interests, as a cunning way of serving the Tories, is something 

 de trop for a hoax it is making Lord Brougham outdo cunning Isaac 

 himself." 



We conclude by giving one more extract from the pamphlet before 

 us. It is well worthy to be borne in mind by every Reformer in 

 England: " Forewarned, fore-armed," and it will not be for lack of 

 sufficiently emphatic warnings, if the people once more consent to be 

 branded by the iron heel of the Duke of Wellington : 



" While there is undivided unity in the enemy's camp, it behoves us not 



