of driving the right honourable Baronet from the high situation
to which they had themselves exalted him. I went out with them
myself; yes, with the whole body of the Tory country gentlemen,
with the whole body of high Churchmen. All the four University
Members were with us. The effect of that division was to bring
Lord Grey, Lord Althorpe, Lord Brougham, Lord Durham into power.
You may say that the Tories on that occasion judged ill, that
they were blinded by vindictive passion, that if they had
foreseen all that followed they might have acted differently.
Perhaps so. But what has been once may be again. I cannot think
it possible that those who are now supporting the right
honourable Baronet will continue from personal attachment to
support him if they see that his policy is in essentials the same
as Lord Melbourne's. I believe that they have quite as much
personal attachment to Lord Melbourne as to the right honourable
Baronet. They follow the right honourable Baronet because his
abilities, his eloquence, his experience are necessary to them;
but they are but half reconciled to him. They never can forget
that, in the most important crisis of his public life, he
deliberately chose rather to be the victim of their injustice
than its instrument. It is idle to suppose that they will be
satisfied by seeing a new set of men in power. Their maxim is
most truly "Measures, not men." They care not before whom the
sword of state is borne at Dublin, or who wears the badge of St
Patrick. What they abhor is not Lord Normanby personally or Lord
Ebrington personally, but the great principles in conformity with
which Ireland has been governed by Lord Normanby and by Lord
Ebrington, the principles of justice, humanity, and religious
freedom. What they wish to have in Ireland is not my Lord
Haddington, or any other viceroy whom the right honourable