Sir Robert Peel: From His Private Papers, Volume 3

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John Murray, 1899 - Cabinet officers
 

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Page 544 - I never knew a man in whose truth and justice I had a more lively confidence, or in whom I saw a more invariable desire to promote the public service. In the whole course of my...
Page 566 - ... that he could almost think that he had lived in two different countries, and conversed with people who spoke two different languages.
Page 221 - I foresee the necessity that may be imposed upon us at an early period of considering whether there is not that well-grounded apprehension of actual scarcity that justifies and compels the adoption of every means of relief which the exercise of the prerogative or legislation might afford. " I have no confidence in such remedies as the prohibition of exports, or the stoppage of the distilleries. The removal of impediments to import is the only effectual remedy.
Page 586 - Wearied with our long and unavailing efforts to enter into satisfactory commercial treaties with other nations, we have resolved at length to consult our own interests, and not to punish those other countries for the wrong they do us in continuing their high duties upon the importation of our products and manufactures, by continuing high duties ourselves, encouraging unlawful trade.
Page 469 - You will see that we are out-defeated by a combination of Whigs and Protectionists. A much less emphatic hint would have sufficed for me. I would not have held office by sufferance for a week. Were I to write a quire of paper, I could not recount to you what has passed with half so much detail and accuracy as the public papers will recount it. There are no secrets. We have fallen in the face of day, and with our front to the enemy..
Page 544 - Hadst thou but lived, though stripped of power, A watchman on the lonely tower, Thy thrilling trump had roused the land, When fraud or danger were at hand . By thee as by the beacon-light, Our pilots had kept course aright ; As some proud column, though alone, Thy strength had propped the tottering throne.
Page 217 - ... ecclesiastical patronage ; to write with his own hand to every person of note who chooses to write to him ; to be prepared for every debate, including the most trumpery concerns ; to do all these indispensable things, and also sit in the House of Commons eight hours a day for 1 1 8 days. It is impossible for me not to feel that the duties are incompatible, and above all human strength — at least above mine.
Page 348 - There are no means of calculating at this moment how our men will go, but he agrees with us. It may be perilous, but if we lose this chance, the traitor will escape. I will make the plunge, and as soon as I can.
Page 222 - The Anti-Corn Law pressure is about to commence, and it will be the most formidable movement in modern times. Everything depends on the skill, the promptitude, and the decision with which it is met.
Page 544 - A watchman on the lonely tower, Thy thrilling trump had roused the land, When fraud or danger were at hand . By thee as by the beacon-light, Our pilots had kept course aright ; As some proud column, though alone, Thy strength had propped the tottering throne. Now is the stately column broke, The beacon-light is quenched in smoke, The trumpet's silver sound is still, The warder silent on the hill...

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