Speeches by the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart. M.P. During His Administration: Also His Address to the Electors of the Borough of Tamworth, and Speech at the Grand Entertainment in Honor of Him at the Merchant Tailor's Hall |
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Page 10 - I opposed, and I am bound to state that my opinions in that respect have undergone no change, the admission of Dissenters, as a claim of right, into the Universities ; but I expressly declared that, if regulations, enforced by public authorities superintending the professions of law and medicine and the studies connected with them, had the effect of conferring advantages of the nature of civil privileges on one class of the King's subjects from which another class was excluded, those regulations...
Page 11 - Kingdom, from strictly ecclesiastical purposes. But I repeat now the opinions that I have already expressed in Parliament in regard to the Church Establishment in Ireland -that if, by an improved distribution of the revenues of the Church, its just influence can be extended, and the true interests of the Established religion promoted, all other considerations should be made subordinate to the advancement of objects of such paramount importance.
Page 37 - I recommend to your consideration whether it may not be in your power, after providing for the exigencies of the public service, and consistently with the steadfast maintenance of the public credit, to devise a method for mitigating the pressure of those local charges which bear heavily on the owners and occupiers of land, and for distributing the burden of them more equally over other descriptions of property.
Page 8 - ... that great aid of Government, more powerful than either law or reason, the respect for ancient rights, and the deference to prescriptive authority — if this be the spirit of the Reform Bill, I will not undertake to adopt it. But if the spirit of the Reform Bill implies merely a careful review of institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, undertaken in a friendly temper, combining with the firm maintenance of established rights the correction of proved abuses and the redress of real grievances,...
Page 7 - Then as to the spirit of the Reform Bill, and the willingness to adopt and enforce it as a rule of government. If by adopting the spirit of the Reform Bill it be meant that we are to live in a perpetual vortex of agitation...
Page 6 - I took in the great question of the currency — in the consolidation and amendment of the criminal law — in the revisal of the whole system of Trial by Jury — to the opinions I have professed, and uniformly acted on with regard to other branches of the jurisprudence of the country.
Page 44 - ... has deserted you, and that you will have no alternative, but either again to invoke our aid, to replace the Government in the hands from which you would now forcibly withdraw it, or to resort to that pressure from without...
Page 6 - ... of principle; that vague and unmeaning professions of popular opinions may quiet distrust for a time, may influence this or that election; but that such professions must ultimately and signally fail, if, being made, they are not adhered to, or if they are inconsistent with the honour and character of those who make them.
Page 13 - ... application to public measures, to indicate the spirit in which the King's Government is prepared to act. Our object will be, the maintenance of peace ; the scrupulous and honourable fulfilment, without, reference to their original policy, of, all existing engagements with . foreign powers; the support of public credit; the enforcement of strict economy, ; and the just and impartial consideration of what is due to all interests ; agricultural, manufacturing, and commercial.