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revenue is nearly twice that sum ? Let those who can, solve the pro- 

 blem. With us it rests only to say, that, feeling no more hostility to the 

 mere individuals of the government, than we should to any other blun- 

 ders, we have the fullest right to demand from them the cause why their 

 Administration has been exclusively one of misfortune ; why the finances 

 are in a state of increasing perplexity ; why the population is growing 

 perpetually more embarrassed and ill provided ; why the reputation of 

 England abroad is going down, and the supremacy shifted to the head 

 of a power that threatens the independence of the Continent, and with it 

 of England ? 



As we are closing these remarks, we have heard the exultation of the 

 ministerial prints on Prince Leopold's probable promotion to the Greek 

 throne. But is this a homage to English influence ? Do we not know 

 the alliance of the Cobourg family with that of the Czar ; and can we 

 suppose this Prince will be more English in Greece than he was in 

 St. James's ? Who knows any thing about him in England, but as 

 a pensioner to an enormous and most improvident amount, who has 

 received already out of the national purse, a sum little short of seven 

 hundred thousand pounds sterling ? Or who cares any thing about this 

 sullen foreigner, except to hope that he will have the decency to resign his 

 fifty thousand pounds a year at once ; or that ministers will have the 

 decency to have no " delicacy" on the subject, but give him notice that 

 he must drain the reluctant country no longer. To suppose that any 

 Englishman feels either himself or his country honoured in putting 

 either cap or crown on the head of this foreigner is idle. England only 

 wishes to see no more of him, and get rid of the Prince and his pension 

 with the greatest possible expedition. 



But, on the really important question of the permanency of the 

 Cabinet, if any man, from John o' Groat's House to the Land's End, 

 can lay his finger upon any one great healing measure of this Govern- 

 ment any one instance of meeting the calamities of the time any one 

 proof of salutary and acknowledged influence or service in the European 

 system then say we with the courtiers, Let them go on triumphing ! 

 But if this as much defies probability, as a change in the tides, then say 

 all honest and sober men, How long are we to give a Cabinet of Soldiers 

 credit for being a Cabinet of Statesmen ? How long are we to suppose 

 that a man vigorous in the field, is to be therefore wise in council ? or 

 that the faculties which were in their maturity twenty years ago, are to 

 claim a renovated y.outh, and be in the full bloom of legislation for ever ? 



Then, away with the Cabinet, and let it make room for one in which 

 men's habits have been neither exposed to the morals of a camp, nor their 

 hearts inured to the bloody waste of the field, nor their education for the 

 government of freemen formed by a forty years' unquestioning and 

 unquestioned exercise of that discipline, which, essential as it is for the 

 soldier, is the direct reverse of every feeling of civil life. We will have 

 nothing to do with cap in hand submission, with the mute obedience of 

 the drill, with the haughty spirit of the guard-room. If the Cabinet can 

 have divested itself of those things, let it go on. But we hate experi- 

 ments ; we rely deeply on the force of old associations ; we think the 

 Soldier proper only in his proper place ; and we long to see once more at 

 the head of affairs, Statesmen, according to the old and glorious model of 

 England. 



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