A Hundred Years Ago
"Tax SPECTATOR," NOVEMBER 1 5 T H, 1834.
THE KING HAS DISMISSED THE WHIG MINISTERS !—fairly turned them out of office. His -Majesty considers, or pretends to cOnsider, the removal of Lord ALTproar to the House of Peers as Earl SPENCER, equivalent to a break-up of the whole Administra- tion. So, it seems, he told Lord.MELsouRNE ; who; after spending the greater part of two days in conferences at Brighton, returned to town last night, and communicated the intelligence to his colleagueri. The Morning Chronicle and the Times both intimate that the Queen has been the prime mover in this change ; and state that the Duke of WELLINGTON has been sent for by the King. If the King supposes that there has really been any reaction in the country. infavour of the Anti-Reformers, he _will find himself grievously deceived. Should he resolve to make common cause with .a section of the Aristocracy against the-Nation, there can be no other result than great temporary confusion. The King has 'been misled : he, would never knowingly incur, the imminent risk of embittering the latter days of his hitherto gloriorui and popular reign by the support of the Anti-Reforming faction, if he were really aware of the actual state of feeling among 'the immense 1.najoritv -of his subjects.
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