" A GENTLEMAN_ OE SPLENDID 4 TALENT." AT a late "Conservative dinner"
in Suffolk,s_--_Sir. in the -nlialr-;-pae.seatsthe,-Reiexeria-sIs-Arreswsssmsss-tise-gexerezl WILLIAM KIN3Y, the , ,RovesencL VV.saLosvosasubefilseeltevenard-Ss CasusoLsajr-e4--the Chairman "proposed the health of two gentlemen who were present, candidates for the honour of represent Iing Ipswich—two gentlemen of splendid talenfrmAlift.43ergsser PILOA.-14.1tly ilmi. iiii.uxaLP..r-----,-,One of the gentleitien, Mr. KELLY, vsko-issair.Ltalausa-lasksaieters in returning thanks, gave the following specimens of his splendid talent.
." This shameless and wicked war was enough, almost, to snake the followers of Nelson, who had pirtaken of his immortality, rise from the bed of death. (!)
"Was it on this point only that they had to complain of the policy of Ministers—that he called on his friends to be united even unto death? He was not speaking on supposition When he denounced. their principles. England might see their effects" [the effects of Lord GREY'S principles] "in a neighbouring country. Those principles had been tried in that country with which they were now coalescing against Holland. The misery they had produced bore witness against them. In France, it was well known, they commenced with the destruc tton of the Church; the power of the Aristocracy was then crippled ; their Peers were elected [when?] for life; they went on in what we should call UltraRadicalism, until it [Ultra-Radicalism] terminated, accelerated perhaps by what he would term the error of the late King, in the downfal of monarchy. . What splendid talent ! "Look at France. There they had tried the system of free trade, and let Marseilles, Lyons, and Rotten speak with what effect—there poverty and wretchedness and want were seen among the thousand miserable and starving inhabitants." (--Cheers:-.) w -did-the tgentlenaan. of splendid Went learn litat ee trad " had been " tried". in Ounce Franee, where tr de is m re hampere4 by protection And encouragement than-in as y country of Europe: He proceeds4" (Wlidnied been the effect-of free -trade with regard to agriculture? Why,
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ffie land, notwithstanding its superior excellence, hardly gave the large landed proprietor enough to save his family from want. An artificial exchange, by barter, of the necessaries of life was carried on."
Other Conservatives point at France as an unhappy country in which there are no "large landed proprietors ;" but the artificial nature of barter is a new discovery, which belongs exclusively to this gentleman of splendid talent. He concludes thus= Oh ! gentlemen, let it never be said that this kingdom shall bedictated to by men advocating such principles and following such examples!" Of him, by whom the gentleman's splendid-talent would have _ this kingdom" dictated to," the Chairman spoke .as folio us, to the great delight of his reverend auditors " On the ISth of June, the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington was riding past the Horse Guards. He was seen by a soldier who had fought under him, and who was then very drunk. Pointing to the Duke, he [the drunken trooper] said—' There goes that hooked-nosed old rascal, who can, whenever and wherever he pleases, lick the French. Now, I'll give the health of that hooked-nosed old rascal.'" The toast, says the Standard, was received with immense applause and several distinct rounds of cheers ; but he does not add that the company "was then very drunk." Such are the Conservatives. Sir RICHARD VYVYAN is their " greatest statesman of the age ;" poor old GAFFER GoocH is their "Englishman from the crown of his head to the sole of his foot"—so, at least, says Mr. Sergeant GOULBURN ; and this Mr. KELLY, whose ignorance is really disgraceful to the' bar, if he be a barrister, is put forward by them as a "gentleman of splendid talent."
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