Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 424, February 1851

"'That the concession of the representative franchise would be productive of further and progressive evils, and enable Romanists either to prosecute a successful crusade for supremacy, or involve the country in all the horrors of a civil war.

"'That the grant of the representative franchise would soon introduce into the British Senate such an influx of members from each side the Channel, as would, by voting together on all occasions of emergency, control your honourable house and the other estates of the realm, DICTATE TO THE MINISTERS OF THE CROWN, AND FORCE THEM INTO ANY MEASURES they pleased.'"

"Lord Eldon's Predictions in 1829, on the third reading of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill.

"The following predictions of this venerable nobleman were at the time sneered at as the senile and effete expressions of a bigoted octogenarian. What a lesson has he left to those who now hold the rudder of the state in their hands! —

"'I know that, sooner or later, this bill will overturn the aristocracy and the monarchy. What I have stated is my notion of the danger to the Establishment. Have they not Roman Catholic archbishops for every Protestant archbishop – Roman Catholic deans for every Protestant dean? Did not the Roman Catholic ecclesiastics dispute against Henry VIII. in defence of the power of the Pope? and in Mary's time were not the laws affecting the Roman Catholics repealed, not by the authority of Parliament, but through the influence of the Pope's legate? And even though you suppress these Roman Catholics who utter these seditious, treasonable, abominable, and detestable speeches, others will arise who will utter speeches more treasonable, more abominable, and more detestable. No sincere Roman Catholic could or did look for less than a Roman Catholic king and a Roman Catholic parliament. Their lordships might flatter themselves that the dangers he had anticipated were visionary, and God forbid that he should say, that those who voted for the third reading of the bill will not have done so conscientiously, believing that no danger exists or can be apprehended from it. But in so voting, they had not that knowledge of the danger in which they were placing the great, the paramount interests of this Protestant state, – they had not that knowledge of its true interests and situation, which they ought to have. Those with whom we are dealing are too wary to apprise you by any indiscreet conduct of the danger to which you are exposed. When those dangers shall have arrived, I shall have been consigned to the urn, the sepulchre, and mortality; but that they will arrive, I have no more doubt than that I yet continue to exist.'" —Bell's Life in London, Dec. 21, 1850.

4

Sidney Smith.

5

James's Naval History, vol. i., Appendix.

6

See Saxe Gotha Almanac, 1851, p. 415, 461.

7

Almanach de Gotha, 1851, 466.

8

Admiral Bowles' Pamphlet, 1840 —Suggestions for the more speedy Equipment and better Manning of her Majesty's Navy.

9

The Author is in possession of M. de Bouillé's memoir to Louis XVI., on this subject, in 1782, which is identically the same as Napoleon afterwards put in execution. He owes this valuable historical document to the kindness of his esteemed friend, Admiral Sir George Seymour, who got it in the West Indies, whither a copy of it had been sent.

10

Porter's Progress of the Nation, p. 138, 2d. edition.

11

"The official returns of the importations of grain, &c., into the United Kingdom have not yet been completed; but for the eleven months ending 5th of December 1850, the quantities were —

Which is at the rate, with prices at 39s. 9d., of 9,500,000 quarters a-year." —Morning Post, Jan. 7, 1851.

12

London, week ending July 12, 1850.

Arrivals.

– Times, July 17.

13

Captain Larcom's Report. We quote from memory; but the above figures are near the truth.

14

Quarterly Review, Jan. 1851, p. 399, note.

15

16

£100,000,000 in quarters of wheat at 80s., 25,000,000 quarters; £50,000,000 in quarters of wheat at 40s., 25,000,000. So that, after all our boasted reductions, our taxes are now thirty per cent heavier than they were in the heaviest year of the war, when they were only £72,000,000.

17

See a most admirable pamphlet by Mr Stanley, the worthy inheritor of his father's genius and patriotic spirit. The slaves imported into Cuba have increased since 1847 from 23,000 to 50,000.

18

Curran and his Contemporaries. By Charles Phillips, Esq., A.B., one of her Majesty's Commissioners in the Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors. 1 vol. 8vo. 1850.

19

Foreign Reminiscences. By Henry Richard Lord Holland. Edited by his Son, Henry Edward Lord Holland. Longmans: 1850.

20

Chapter XCII. Sect. 72.

21

Alison, Chapter XCII. Sect. 66.

22

Alison, Chapter XCV. Sect. 101.

23

The Queen or the Pope? The Question considered in its Political, Legal, and Religious Aspects. By Samuel Warren, Esq., Barrister-at-law.