Year.

1826. This change (beginning in 1822) broke
down the insolence of such men as
CASTLEREAGH, LIVERPOOL, and
CANNING

CASTLEREAGH (August 1822) cut his
own throat, at North Cray, in Kent:
his character: his deeds: his alleged
insanity: his burial: the

power

he

possessed in the government, at the
moment when he cut his throat: the

verdict of the jury: the conduct of the

coroner

....

Par.

468

*.469 to 477

1827. LIVERPOOL's extinguishment complete. 478

CANNING prime minister in May; boggles and reels about like a baby till August, and then died, and became forgotten in a week: his character: his origin: his base insolence towards the reformers: his sackings of the public money.. 479, 480 Lord Goderich (Frederick Robinson) succeeds Canning: quits his post at the end of a few weeks, is succeeded by the Duke of Wellington : the duke finds that the "word of command" will not raise 59 millions a year with wheat at 6s. a bushel...... 481 1828. THE TEST AND CORPORATION ACTS repealed: this was the first distinct

blow at the Church

1829. The repeal of the laws against the CATHOLIC RELIGION, which repeal took the name of Catholic Emancipation:

ib.

Year. 1829.

brought forward by the DUKE and Sir
ROBERT PEEL, as the best means of
upholding the Protestant Hierarchy in
Ireland!

The difficulties of the government go on
increasing the means of the nation
diminishing: its burdens increas-
ing, in fact, though not in nominal
amount: the land-owners looking about
them for help, vainly hope to find in
the "vigour and decision " of the "Hero
of Waterloo," who was unable to
make wheat rise in price, however able
he had been to expend the money
borrowed for the carrying-on of the

war

1830. Great distress in the country: the people,
at last, fixed on a reform of the parlia-
ment as the only effectual remedy: the
country full of discontent: in this state
of things (26. June) the Big" SOVE-
REIGN" died.

Pare

The new king's angry speech on pro-
roguing the parliament...

The

482

483

485

ib,

The Duke of Wellington's declaration
against Reform, on the same day.... 487
rage of the people at hearing this de-
claration the gross insults which the
duke had to endure: his name rubbed
out from the corners of streets: his
picture rubbed out of signs; his bullet-
proof window-shutters

.....

488

Year.

1830. The sort of life that he led from the year

Par.

492

494

1822 to the day of his death. The memorable burial-day of "the SOVEREIGN": conduct of the people of London on this occasion ........ 493 The base adulation of royalty which became fashionable The CHARACTER of "the SOVEREIGN": the severe punishment of the MESSRS. HUNT, of the ExaMINER newspaper, for having spoken of him the cowed-down state of the press the prosecution of the same gentlemen for an alleged libel on the dead George III.! We may say what we please in praise of

sovereigns, dead or alive

Sir Robert Peel's praises of Geo. IV.....

FOREIGN AFFAIRS during this regency

and reign

BURDENS which the Big

the Big "SOVE

ib

495

ib.

497

REIGN" left on the backs of his people, and to which he had added a permanent weight of nine millions a year 502 TABLE (from official accounts) showing the

amount, in each year of this regency and reign, of the TAXES, of the COLLECTION, and of the cost of DEBT, ARMY, NAVY, ORDNANCE, CIVILLIST, SECRET SERVICES, and the amount of money voted out of the taxes for the church parsons

ib.

Year.

Monstrousness of this taxation and expen

diture....

1830. It now shakes all the ancient institutions

and all property...

SUFFERINGS, privations, ruin, and misery
of the people, arising from these bur-
dens

Par.

503

ib.

IN THE CHURCH abuses enormous:
churches suffered to fall down: the
aristocratical clergy taking away the
means of existence from the working
clergy: the revenues of the parishes
carried away and spent at a distance:
the people straying into all sorts of

sects

504

505

CRIME increases in proportion as the
misery of the people increases; till, at
last, their ideas come back to the law
of nature, which tells every hungry
man to take food where he can find it. 506
NEW AND SEVERE LAWs to check this
increase of crime: a total departure
from all the main principles of En-
glish law

507

A fearful looking forward towards that
which is to come, as the final and natu-
ral consequence of this long, this taxing,
this squandering, regency and reign,
during which the great land-owners of
England, by endeavouring to extin-
guish the last remains of English free-
dom, put their own estates in jeopardy. 508