all your largest towns. Our lawful power shall be firmly exerted
to the utmost in your cause; and our lawful power is such, that
when firmly exerted in your cause, it must finally prevail."
This tone it is our interest and our duty to take. The
circumstances admit of no delay. Is there one among us who is
not looking with breathless anxiety for the next tidings which
may arrive from the remote parts of the kingdom? Even while I
speak, the moments are passing away, the irrevocable moments
pregnant with the destiny of a great people. The country is in
danger: it may be saved: we can save it: this is the way:
this is the time. In our hands are the issues of great good and
great evil, the issues of the life and death of the State. May
the result of our deliberations be the repose and prosperity of
that noble country which is entitled to all our love; and for the
safety of which we are answerable to our own consciences, to the
memory of future ages, to the Judge of all hearts!

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PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. (DECEMBER 16, 1831)

A SPEECH DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON THE 16TH OF
DECEMBER 1831.

On Friday, the sixteenth of December 1831, Lord Althorpe moved
the second reading of the Bill to amend the representation of the
people in England and Wales. Lord Porchester moved, as an
amendment, that the bill should be read a second time that day
six months. The debate lasted till after midnight, and was then