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LETTER TO SIR ROBERT PEEL. 393

00k for office, are ready for the amalgamation. They are 1846.
With difficulty kept apart bh the instinct of party discipline. Zr. 42.
Ong dissolution, jucicicas!s brought about, would release
“Very one of them ”~m thoss bonds which time and cir-“Wmstances
 have £> i +7 loosened.
“I have said ths’ .. dissolution should be judiciously
brought about. ~~sume, of course, that you would
806 deem "it me- © gtand or full by the present
Coercion Bill, T asso moreover, that yon are alive to
the all-pervading force .* the arguments you have used
2 favour of Free Trade principles, that they are eternal
ruth, applicable to all articles of exchange, as well as
®rn; and that they must be carried out in every item of
Our tariff, I assume that you foresaw, when you propounded
the Corn Bill, that it involved the necessity of applying the
Same priuciple to sugar, coffee, etc. This assumption is the
basis of all T have said, or have to say. Any other hypothesis
 would imply that yon had not grasped in its full
omprehensiveness the greatness of your position, or the
Weans by which you could alone achieve the greatest triumph
of a century, For I need not tell you that the only way in
Which the soul of a great nation can be stirred, is by appealig
 to its sympathies with a true principle in its unalloyed
Ymplicity, Nay, further, ib is necessary for the concenation
 of a people’s mind that an individual should become
the incarnation of a principle. It is from this necessity
that T have been identified, out of doors, beyond my poor
deserts, as the exponent of Free Trade. You, and no other,
808 ity embodiment amongst statesmen ;—and it is for this
*eason alone that I veature to talk to you in a strain that
Would otherwise be grossly impertinent.
“To return to the practical question of a dissolution. As-Siming
 that your Cabinet will concur, or that you will place
Yourself in a position independently of others to appeal to the