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1858. serve to divert the public mind from home questions, And
Ar. 49. this, in my view, is one of the great evils of our system a
foreign intervention. But I must say we cannot charge It
upon the aristocracy, or the executive, as a bait thrown to the
whale. The so-called Radicals of the old school are more 0
blame. And this brings me to remark that in calling for
Reform of Parliament, the Radical party (so-called) have 10
policy to offer as the promised fruits of another Reform Bill
When the Whigs headed the former cry in 1830, they pro”
mised retrenchment, peace, non-intervention, and all kinds of
practical benefits. They have, no doubt, proved themselves 0
have been to a large extent impostors, but now the Radicals
(I speak of those who are anything better than Whigs, and
yet not of the Manchester School) have contrived to identify
themselves with an absurd policy, which actually precludes
the possibility of any appreciable reduction of expenditures
and puts them out of court as complainants against the aris:
tocracy for their former system of foreign intervention, and
the debts and misgovernment which have grown out of it-In
 fact, those Radicals who abuse us for resisting the
invasion humbug and the Eastern question humbug, do not
seem to perceive how they have been whitewashing all the
doings of our aristocracy from 1688 to the present time;
and not only so, but like the red-republican writers and
orators on the Continent, they have contrived to give quiet
people of property the notion that extreme liberalism means
more wars, increased armaments, and greater burdens of
taxation. Add to this, that Mr, Baines and a large party of
Dissenters, the very salt of liberalism, have managed to snatch
away from us more than half of our old cry of National
Education,’ and you see what a mess we are in for want of 8
Radical policy to inspire the great supine public with some
hopes of advantage from a further reform of parliament.
“ Nov. 22, ( ,, )—Yesterday I got a fow lines from Moles=