The Glasgow Argus, in anticipation of the Peel Glasgow Festival,
has been publishing extracts from the " Peel papers," containing " cer- tificates of charaeter " from Tory writers, which were given in or about the year 1829. Let us brush up the memory of sonic of our contem- poraries by a quotation or two.
" Protestant, who at this tremendous crisis withholds his suffrage. be he
unto )e, oh, people of litiglaud, as Peet or az Ihneton."- Sanaata, 11th Lisa " neatly, except the Duke, and probably Sir George Murray, I don't suppose the minn'ttirs of the rat cabinet ever knew they were ratting. They ratted-1 neon Peel, 1:at he rd., and so forth-merely to keep their places. I suppase gaa ail emus,. any de- tails in. the Chanrellor's case. i• • • Imagine Peel taking a view of a subject, tun• fortunately, but most conscientiously, different from that of his illustrious friend at the head of his Nlajestv's Government. Imagine the Eight Iluntvirable John Singleton, Daum Lyndhurst, Laving the ill-luck t cdifTer in opinion born th Most Noble Arthur by royal permission "-Braeincomts Magazine, June 1829.
" Is it upon Mr. Peel that the agriculturists are to rely-rely upon Mr. Peel, upon him whose fame, even by the confessions of his friends, is founded upon his ]'dcI}uty is Yieldurg depend upon the man who has given up in SUCCe,,i0U every thing fur obiell lie contended-except his place?"-Standard, With Apr:11829.
" As for Peel, his talents qualify hint for no higher task than that of repealin2 Acts of Parliament which impose the penalty of death on people fifittul to have kept coin. puny with Egyptians fur an hour. Ile is in ram, creeping, mechanical drudge. Ilia politieal existence is sacrificed. If the Duke turned him ulT to morrow, of what pos. bible harm could be be to his Grace's Administration ? Ile-lie, the disgraced, the characterless, the ' false. lying. perjured turncoat '-he go into opposition ! No he depends upon the good pleasure of the Duke. As lung as his Grace thinks his hap. less victim of any use to hum, so long nory he cling to his place."-dyes 22d Feb. 1d19. " In the progress or the measures before you, swnething, my Lords, has occurred, which compels me to withdraw all politic id confidence from the noble Duke and his Administration ; and I feel it my duty now to tbielare, that, from me, neither the noble Duke. nor any of his colleagnes, has henceforu ant to expect support."-Duke of Cum- berland's Speech,10th April 1629.
"No man can hesitate in preferring the hero if Waterloo to Mr. Peel-the man with Ltd one (liStIOUOtiling blot on his character tar veracity-to him whose whole political life has been a tissue of simulation -to the perstm, in a few words, who would not serve under Mr. Canning, because the deceased Mini•ter was friendly to a course of policy which, within twelve mouths of Mr. Canning's 4eatli, the same honourable person forced upon his noble colleague-to the gentleman who justified a step in August, and, as we our prove, contemplated ttectre ',ninths ego, by hi, retroactive documents written iu 8.1.tendier. No man, we say, can hesitate in preferring the testimony of the Duke of Wellington to that of Mr. Pea-Standard, I .tii Feb. 1s29.
" There eon be no rectitude if purpose, or calscionattt-SS of an honest meaning. in shut system of pulley which required a Minister of the Crown to make a progress through the country, and to mingle in the festive meetings of its inhabitants, assembled every. where expressly to do him honour, in a cliarae.er which, %%hilt, he received these marks of a nation's confidence and favour, he had already made up his mind to abandon. Mr. Peel has furtively drained ott the cup of popularity to the dregs; and he will feel, as others have felt before him, that the cup or popularity. when drank with MI eager- ness se insane, is poisou. His thirst for praise was so intense, that he could nut raisin from joining in the loud and honest acclamations with which the men of Laneaslibe, iu the spirit of loyalty end honour, di ank to the perpetuity of the Constinition, although he knew that lie had already iu secret given a stab to that Const;tution which the men of Lancashire meant to honour—a stab which he believed and ktended to be litiat.'— .111ornicg Putt, 17th Feb. 18'29.
" Or all the apostates, Mr. Peel is undoubtedly the most culpable. flis reasons fur deserting his former principles are enough to make his friends commit suieide."- filerwaj Journal, 101/1 Feb. 1529
" Mr. Peel will retire. ilit notorious inejlicieney as leader in the Ikuse of (banmons, together with the entire reprobation of hint by the party whose support hitherto gave
him his only importance-and the public feeling upon the Swan River ; we may add the kind of estimation in which the Home Secretary is known to be held by his Royal Ilighness."-Standard, 6th June 1829.
" Mr. Peel is lost fur ever as a statesman. His conduct stands undefended, lode tensible. No party ever will, or ever can, trust him again."-Glasgow C'ousier. 14th Feb. 1S•29.
" We have done with this now fallen and despicable man. We would advise him to emigrate, nail seek a retreat among the kangaroos and Peels of the Swan Itiver."- Ale/rainy Journal, 15th June 1829.
Be it remembered, that these extracts supply the Tory estimate of Sir Robert Peel-not ours. We agree with the Glasgow Argus, that though there is a likeness, some of the features are " horribly over- charged and caricatured." Wu cannot now refer to teem co vc itoi tly, but we wish our Scottish contemporary had quoted sonic stabzais from Blachwood's Magazine, of which the following was one.
"flays Reiiisciata, the premier Baron Ai!: Of this world's thirty deeds I've seen a great deal ; But it gives to my bosbom easheeding relief 'That as yet I have met with but one Mr. Peel."
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