Identifier: historyofallnati18wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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otte, only a sacrifice to injustice ; and since the Tories,her early friends, had abandoned her cause after her consort joinedthem, the Whigs, from motives of party policy, came forward as herdefenders. Thanks to Broughams brilliant speech in defence, therewas only a majority of nine voices that affirmed the queens guilt,whereupon the ministry, anticipating the action of the Lower House,withdrew the complaint, to the unbounded delight of the j^eople, andto their own signal discomfiture. Happily the queen died onAugust 7, 1821. This scandalous trial and Castlereaghs suicide were the death-knell of the Tory government. It was absolutely the last, in theanciently accepted sense of this term, wliich England has had.For while the cabinet yielded to the necessity of renovating itselfby the infusion of fresh forces from the ranks of the more moderateTories, not inflexil)ly hostile to certain reforms, it ingrafted upon it-self and its (Mitire party the germ of decay. The great upward PLATE VI
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aintin^ l>yThomas Pliiliii)s U~0-1845i. JUitory of All Saiioju, Vol. XVIII., page 9t. SlU no HEUT IEEL. — IIUSKISSON. 93 movement by wliicli C^uiniiug had freed tlie foreijrii policy of Eiii,-liiud from subserviency to the iloly Alliance found its counterpart,after the entrance of Robert Peel and W. Iluskisson int(j tlic niinis-trv, in tlu! internal lih; of tlie state. To the inijirovcincnt of tliematerial situation the l)aidv-act introduced liy the former essentiallycontribuied. This obliged the Bank of England to resume, step bystep, payments in coin, which had been suspended by Pitt in ITJT.After Peel, in the deliberations concerning these measures, had thecourage to declare publicly that his convictions stood higher withhim than the conunands of party, and after he, in 1828, liad assistedin secvuing a victory for Mackintoshs efforts to render the penaltiesof crime more human

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