o go voluntarily and implicate himself in it.

If I had no other ground for this opinion--and, unfortunately,
there are a thousand good reasons for it--I should think it quite
enough to look at the way in which, in such a moment, these
Ministers are up, running about in every direction--the Duke of
Wellington to Chester, Bathurst to Longleat and I know not where
else, Harrowby to Dawlish, and letting the K---- himself go to
Brighton, leaving everything at sixes and sevens, and trusting to
live through the next month as they can, till the meeting of
Parliament brings on the great crisis.

Truly, if they can, or think they can, do anything to prop up their
Government, they ought to be actively employed in the measures for
that purpose; and if they cannot, they owe it to him to tell him so
at once, and plainly.

But as for any idea of their asking others to join them, in the
very moment of their approaching, and, as they themselves seem to
consider it, inevitable defeat, it does seem that they are not
absurd enough to expect it; nor, if they did, could any reasonable
man entertain the notion, without very different ideas of their
personal fitness for taking their part in such a contest than the
past can allow us to entertain.

I am sure you know I say this from no personal indisposition to
them. My early habits and predilections were with them. I have long
since and totally forgotten whatever of personal controversy the
events of political life interposed between us, and I have with
great pleasure resumed with some of them the course of old
friendships. Nor am I indisposed--but quite the contrary--to the
cause which, unhappily for itself and for us all, is now committed
into their hands.

I wish it success; and as far as the conduct of an independent and
disconnected man goes, I think you are bound to contribute to it if
you can. But your worst enemy could wish you nothing worse than
that you should mix yourself up with all the mischief which must, I
fear, inevitably result from their unfitness to contend with such a
storm, though in peace and in calm they might, as others far
inferior to them in qualifications have done, navigate the vessel
safely in a course already tracked and known.

So, here ends my sermon.--God bless you.

I have not read Grey's Durham speech-