Court Gazette (Newspaper) - October 19, 1844, London, Middlesex T H E AND FASHIONABLE WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE NEW COURT GAZETTE Thit Journal tt published every Saturday Morning at Six and may be had of all respectable Booksellers and Newsmen in Town and Six and Sixpence per LONDON OCTOBER PRICE An ADDRESS to the GOOD FOLKS of BY AN OLD FRIEND WITH FOUR With striking power no longer can I tell Of Times swift flight to or or belJe Kept am by such a I point to nothing right but twice a Never since Times strict slave Ive Grievd have as at this your startling sin Have ye no spirit parish pride And do ye heedlessly my looks deride May I not speak onoe more in faithful To tell my constant tale My tongue of O lay not mute for ever or the walls Will speak you till the silence Now lend a kindly spirit show Curb all my weight of Let not a conscience bid ye shant not compelled to Come all good ye rich as well as Keep me at ask ye nothing We may add that the foregoing lines were written in conse quence of the refusal of the for conscience sake they to pay a thereby preventing the repair of the town The absurdity of this effusion of sectarian animosity is too selfevident to require pointing They act as though the clock could only be seen by churchmen LORD GREY AND THE Rari nantes in gurgite vasto Our readers will be surprised to see Earl with his political at the head of our but we have an important end to answer by introducing them to public and hope that the present effort to promote that end may not be without its CONSERVATISM is our we are happy to be able to state it as our decided opinion that the reaction of the Reform as it was is beginning now to be sensibly and to rivet the conviction on the public that the of an ignorant multitude can with ad vantage or be substituted for those wise laws and solid principles of good upon the basis of which the British Empire has risen to its present commanding The letter of the Marquis of published in our last may be referred to in illustration and support of the foregoing Hundreds and thousands of Irishmen as well as who were Radicals previous to the passing of the Catholic Emancipation are new Why Because they have since seen that not only that legis lative enactment was not a final but that there can be no final measure where caprice in legisla tion takes the place of and the lower orders are taught to believe that the Institutions of the country will be out of order and the people defrauded of their till every and above the age of turns legislator for himself This though perhaps not admitted or even perceived by all the members of Lord Greys is evidently the soul of the Reformers and the gradual development of that creed fully justifies this In we can see nothing in what is generally termed but Revolution a revolution which not resting upon any definite principles of can have no prospect of but contains the prolific principle or seed of so if we rightly understand the this popular sort of Reform must perpetually involve the country in a series of which we can see no HUli over and We have before stated our opinion that the very CONSERVATISM implies every rational reform and improvement in the Constitution for only by a wise and judicious expurgation of real and a modifying and adapting of ancient institutions to the changes and necessities of the can the State be preserved in its general integrity and efficiency for the purposes of its we who stood with Earl Grey when he first came into seeing the dangerous latitudinarianism of popular have discarded their former The develop ment has progressed sufficiently to convince them that its if suffered to must be sine and as the wiser and safer they have found it ne to steer hastily for the port of Earl now stooping under the weight of about 80 has always held to the same line of He is said to have emulated and on his appear ance in the House as the Premier of King William the he truly stated that he stood before the House as the advocate of principles from which he had never Whether his Lordship continues to espouse his former is a Not indeed that we hav a whisper to the con but as those though so long sounded in were untried the passing of the Reform and as so many have really abandoned or greatly modified their old political principles since that it is but fair to presume that some change may have taken place in the opinions of Earl Grey on these through a fuller acquaintance with his by its practical In early political Earl then the Charles born to a large landed paternal almost immediately after escaping his entered the House of Commons in as a representative of the County of His first speech was upon the treaty with France then recently and his maiden was highly complimented by He afterwards usually addressed the House on most important in a and dashing style of but his favourite and that which drew forth all his latent energies PARLIAMENTARY At the period referred Major Cartwright was the Reforming we was of respectable but violent and dogmatical to the last and ther wrapt up the hallucination of Universal Suf from which halo his system received its bright est though most delusive The Major formed a Society for Constitutional which was joined by Earl and the object of which was to consolidate all Reformers of every Jacobin Clubs were at that time numerous and highly not only for the destructive nature of their but also for the reckless characters of their Although the Society above named was not of this yet it was based upon the same general and as exposed Grey to the indignation of William it is whis had some thoughts of exposing him to the same ordeal as that of and Home He was however suffered to merely having been subject to a Parliamentary in answer to which he manfully defended himself and his not only nil the revolutionary but also the doctrine of Universal In the year he presented to the House his first formal petition in favour of Parliamentary which was supported by most of the leading The discussion of this which was continued through two called forth the oratorical efforts of and but upon a only 43 members were found in favour of the In the year when the French Revolution had frenzied Grey addressed the House in a bold and impassioned and the undeviating sup port which he gave to his favourite till carried in must place him among the if not of at least of consistent Reformers Earl Grey has always maintained an and indeed a high In his early his public addresses were of the bold and animated approximating in style rather to the than the Ciceronian oratory but during the progress of the Reform he spoke generally in a very low tone of with much and with that variety of copiousness of and flexi bility of which were always characteristic of his He frequently addressed the House for a long with both his hands clenched be hind and thrust under the flap of his and when not speaking minutely attentive to the speeches of very seldom tolerating any inter ruption by the colloquies even of his official His manners in his Parliamentary were courte though but his mind was imperious if not The slightest liberty from an inferior or contradiction from an equal opened the floodgates of his and and his power of wielding the thunderbolts of Jupiter made circum in nil who had any business with a matter of necessary In the mind of Earl Grey is that of an Autocrat and the absolutism of his would have rendered it impossible for him to have been anything but a The Reform in our has been a signal and we have on the present exhibited the with his in order to supply a bea con for the future safety of all hotheaded We desire to give these Statesmen their but we must in from their political Earl and some of his associates in are men of not to splendid which may for a time make The worse appear the better reason but the gilded however well and how ever brightly it may when first sent from the must soon exhibit the effects of and betray its base origin Lord as the Chancellor of the Reform next merits our What can we say of his Lordship We can say much of his much of his much of his but what of his politics Is he a or a or between the two We feel no hesitation in placing his at the period his among the Reformers but time works wonders in politics and in every thing The caterpillar baa its and perhaps Lord Brougham has had His Lordship evidently long since commenced a retro Reason is and therefore so far
