Zbe Opettator
JULY 13, 1833
IT is evident that there is no sacrifice of political prin- ciple which the Duke of WELLINGTON is not prepared to make rather than suffer a permanent exclusion from power. He gave the lie to all his past professions, when, in 1829, he carried Catholic Emancipation, which he had assured Dr. CURTIS, in the famous letter written within a few months of the passage of the Relief Bill, must be laid aside and forgotten for some years. At that moment, he was planning the means of carrying it in the session just about to open. In 1832, when he found that in consequence of the determina- tion of the People to have a Reformed Parliament, no Anti-Reformer could hope to bear sway in the King's Councils, he was quite ready to eat up all his profes- sions once more, and carry the very measure which he had solemnly denounced, as destructive of the Consti- tution. And now, when it suits his ambition to oppose the slightest possible reform in the Irish Church, he has the effrontery to take up the old exploded stuff about the Coronation Oath, which never for a moment stood in his own way when a point was to be carried. How is it possible to place the least reliance upon such a politician as this? and how ludicrous it is to have such a one held up to the world as a pattern of piety and conscientiousness!
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