A SPECIMEN OF TORY REGARD FOR THE KING.
THE Duke of WELLINGTON told the Merchant Tailor people, that the King regretted the late change of Ministers. This may be true; but who authorized the Duke to make such a communica- tion ? It was not merely presumptuous, but it was most indecent, to proclaim his Majesty's disagreement with his People as to the principles on which and the men by whom the government of the country should be 'carried on. The Duke of WELLINGTON knows, or ought to know, that the King of England is always supposed to be in accordance with the Representatives of the People, except on those rare occasions when he openly and formally rejects a bill. The Duke knows, or ought to know, that it is not strfe for a King of England to be at variance with Parliament; and that none but a madman, with the examples before him which British history supplies, would enter into a contest with the House of Commons. The King took a very bold step when be dismissed Lord MEL- BOURNE in November last, and dissolved the Parliament.; but he acted prudently, and in accordance with the constitution, when he took back Lord MELBOURNE in April, and submitted to have the Duke and his colleagues turned out by the House of Commons, which they, in their wisdom, had summoned to bolster up their unpopular and ill-conditioned Administration. The King in seine sort made the antende honorable to the Nation; and as all his subjects are desirous of being on good terms with WILLIAM the Fourth, his conduct towards the Liberal Ministry last autumn may he forgiven, though not forgotten. But the Tories are determined to put his Majesty in opposition to the People, because the People are no friends to them. The Duke of WELLINGTON therefore telegraphs to the Tory minority of' the City, that the King is a Tory—that he prefers PEEL to MELBOURNE, though he has made MELBOURNE Premier in the place of PFEL. Yet this same Duke would probably deem it an insult to be told that he was acting the part of a disloyal subject, inasmuch as he was doing his best to create dissension between the King and his People, by proclaiming his Majesty's private preference of' an unpopular Minister.
We request attention to this point, as illustrative of the un- scrupulous course the Tories are prepared to run, for their own selfish ends. On the one hand, they strive to mislead the igno- rant and inflame the mob; on time other, to make the Sovereign a party to disputes, in whieh they know it is not safe or constitu- tional for him to mingle. It is the rankest imposture to pretend that men who act in this way are the friends of order and the established form of government. They are the enemies of both, and partisans of Oligarchical misrule—of n system which de- grades the King and plunders the People. if the Sovereign knew the real principle and designs of this faction, he would thank Heaven that he is released from their thraldom, instead of sighing to reestablish their dominion.
The Duke of WELLINGTON'S assertion of the King's dislike to his present Ministers will have the effect of rousing. the Country to take their part. Lord MELBOURNE is the National Premier, although PEEL. may be the favourite tool of the Court. Then let the People stand by their Minister ; and the .Itmg will know, the Tories will soon discover, which of the two is likely to obtain a majority of the House of Commons at the next election.
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