cries of hear! hear!) I profess myself, Sir, an honest and upright member of the British Parliament, and I am not afraid to profess myself an enemy to all change, and all innovation.  I am satisfied with things as they are; and it will be my pride and pleasure to hand down this country to my children as I received it from those who preceded me.  The Honourable Gentleman pretends to justify the severity with which he has attacked the Noble Lord who presides in the Court of Chancery, But I say such attacks are pregnant with mischief to Government itself.  Oppose Ministers, you oppose Government; disgrace Ministers, you disgrace Government; bring Ministers into contempt, you bring Government into contempt; and anarchy and civil war are the consequences.  Besides, Sir, the measure is unnecessary.  Nobody complains of disorder in that shape in which it is the aim of your measure to propose a remedy to it.  The business is one of the greatest importance; there is need of the greatest caution and circumspection.  Do not let us be precipitate, Sir; it is impossible to foresee all consequences.  Every thing should be gradual; the example of a neighbouring nation should fill us with alarm!  The honourable gentleman has taxed me with illiberality.  Sir, I deny the charge.  I hate innovation, but I love improvement.  I am an enemy to the corruption of Government, but I defend its influence.  I dread reform, but I dread it only when it is intemperate.  I consider the liberty of the press as the great Palladium of the Constitution; but, at the same time, I hold the licentiousness of the press in the greatest abhorrence.  Nobody is more conscious than I am of the splendid abilities of the Honourable Mover, but I tell him at once, his scheme is too good to be practicable.  It savours of Utopia.  It looks well in theory, but it won’t do in practice.  It will not do, I repeat, Sir, in practice; and so the advocates of the measure will find, if, unfortunately, it should find its way through Parliament. (Cheers.) The source of that corruption to which the Honourable Member alludes, is in the minds of the people; so rank and extensive is that corruption, that no political reform can have any effect in removing it.  Instead of reforming others—­instead of reforming the State, the Constitution, and every thing that is most excellent, let each man reform himself! let him look at home, he will find there enough to do, without looking abroad, and aiming at what is out of his power. (Loud Cheers).  And now, Sir, as it is frequently the custom in this House to end with a quotation, and as the gentleman who preceded me in the debate has anticipated me in my favourite quotation of the ’Strong pull and long pull,’ I shall end with the memorable words of the assembled barons—­Nolumus leges Angliae mutari’”—­Review of Bentham’s “Book of Fallacies” in the Collected Works.

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