SCENE V™™1T “17 ROBERT PEEL. 261

Dent, In using the word individually,” he used if as the 1848,
Minister himself used the personal pronoun when he said nr. 89.
“I passed the tari,” I treat him,” Cobden concluded,
“a8 the Government, as he is in the habit of treating him-Reif»?

Very stiffiy Peel accepted the explanation. “I am bound
to accept the construction which the “onourable member
buts upon the language he emplry~” He used the word
individually’ in so marked & w~y, that I and others put
Won it a different explanation. He supposes the word
‘individually ? to menn public responsibility in the situation
1 hold, and I admit it ab once. I thought the words he
®mployed, <I hold you individually responsible,” might have
an effect, which I think many other gentlemen who heard
them might anticipate.”
The sitting was not to end without an assault on Cobden
from a different quarter. Sir Robert Peel had no sooner
Becepted one explanation, than Mr. Roebuck made a state-Went
 that demsnded another. He taxed Cobden with
faving spoken of Lord Brougham as a maniac; with having
threatenod his own seat at Bath; and with having tolerated
the use of such reprehensible and dangerous language by
Wemhbers of the League, as justified Lord Brougham’s
®xhortation to all friends of Corn Law Reform to separate
themselves from such evil advisers. This incident sprang
fom some words which Brougham had used in the House
of Lords a week before. They are a fine example of par-Yamentary
 monthing, and of that cheap courage which
Consists in thundering against the indiscretions of sn un-Popular
 friend, If anything could retard the progress of
the doctrines of the League, he had said, “it would be the
®Xaggeratod statements and violence of some of those con-Bected
 with their body—the means adopted by them at some
of their meetings to excite—happily they have not much suc.