He cannot help adding that
he is neither Whig, Tory, nor Radical, and cares not a straw what
party governs England, provided it is governed well. But he has no
hopes of good government from the Whigs. It is true that amongst
them there is one very great man, Lord Palmerston, who is indeed
the sword and buckler, the chariots and the horses of the party;
but it is impossible for his lordship to govern well with such
colleagues as he has--colleagues which have been forced upon him by
family influence, and who are continually pestering him into
measures anything but conducive to the country's honour and
interest. If Palmerston would govern well, he must get rid of
them; but from that step, with all his courage and all his
greatness, he will shrink. Yet how proper and easy a step it would
be! He could easily get better, but scarcely worse, associates.
They appear to have one object in view, and only one--jobbery. It
was chiefly owing to a most flagitious piece of jobbery, which one
of his lordship's principal colleagues sanctioned and promoted,
that his lordship experienced his late parliamentary disasters.
{8} A fact.
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