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Political iy-Sleets.-No. VIII
THE WORDS OF PALMERSTON.
ThVefollov ng IrItcrs appeared in the I11[orn ig Jrerndd' a . Adr-rb,' (~f
Atv.qust 1851, sivd CARITAS.1. /l'1?ploc the charrterg t' LORD P Ir
ai,?d '1AI. UI.JQlfrtART to a '', iiqht, and vigqe.a :t w J , o ;;.i'
caui be nue and how it cai be 7'sed.
LETTER I.
Sit,-.You have marked your sense of thee imp'nrt'ie.'-6f tte
disclosures made the other night by Lord Clarendon as bearing oIL
the bharacter of the Government, by admitting into your colinni
an able article on the subject from a contemporary, wihich throm\-'
on the matter the additional light of contrast-Lord Clarcndou ii,
Mr. Urqnhart are placed in juxta-position, and the accuracy or
everv statement and prcdiction. made by the latter, brouht out t
strong ' 'cf by the false asscrtions of the formcr. Mfalc out tlirV
best case you can for Lord Clarendon ; give Iimin the beficht off rvv
doubt; suppose hin to have bccn only intensely ignovmt, and not,
elesiglc(Ily treacherous, still but-one conclusion can be arrived t.
As long as inoo.'sv ilot 1e(, css:urv *or a i13ltish miuiter.
bon 1ed.' a dis1mii~ieation, it is plaiu, that Lord Clarendou n K
Mr. Tirqpuhiart ouglit to oionge places
Sir, we dctrnifed to be the trumpeters of our own folly, and
tur LrsNcIves into ridicuh, fbr the amnsrment of' the %vortl Tl'lu
very power with whom we are at war c(an throw in our teet]:,
through its orgau the Times, that qur I1ouse of Commois is
irlbecile, ndI our,' (overarnnt dc'pravl. \\hat tie ruhrrn arc.
that miust the people be.
This is Che truth we must now lay to hcart, that in the acts o[
our rulcrs, and the sabmiissiveuess of our P'arliamelnt, we may ,.
our own apnithy and folly; and each nlai at once begin the ta.L of
iavinci hi country by reformimg himself.
What one man has done shows us what we ongit to iave ':n'.
That we may be convinced that the difference between-.x1r.
Urquhart and ourselves is really that between a blind man and a
gceing one, I propose to go over the grounds on which hi.4 jiugmiient
was formed--facts that wcre equally availabI for all of us ; that is,
what it was that he saw, and we were blind to. Ve were as nimiei
surprised last year at the line taken by Mr. Urquhart in th's.-
matters, as at everything that has occurred. We had hitherto
thought him extravagant in his fears of Russian aggression, aid 'his
view of the importance of an intimate alliance with kiirkey. But
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