Notices of the Late Sir W. Moleswoth, Bart. [Compiled by T. W.]Privately printed, 1857 - 167 pages |
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Page 14 - That the principles on which the foreign policy of Her Majesty's Government have been regulated have been such as were calculated to maintain the honour and dignity of this country ; and in times of unexampled difficulty, to preserve peace between England and the various nations of the world.
Page 17 - House that in the present critical state of many of her Majesty's foreign possessions in various parts of the world, it is essential to the well-being of her Majesty's colonial empire, and of the many and important domestic interests, which...
Page 14 - I therefore fearlessly challenge the verdict which this House, as representing a political, a commercial, a constitutional country, is to give on the question now brought before it — whether the principles on which the foreign policy of her Majesty's Government has been conducted, and...
Page 135 - ... at such places. He wanted a wider scope of action, a regulating of things, not words, even at an age when longs and shorts alone occupy collegiate attention. He was evidently of and for the political world. He observed much, and in his early continental tour, where he made profitable observations, he directed his attention particularly to the public institutions. There was no vacillation exhibited in his conduct ; he took his ground and kept it. He had the pleasure, and it is not a small one,...
Page 139 - ... of the prophetic words of a contemporary of his youth, in the prospective decay of the shackles that hamper the human intellect : " The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightnings, and the equilibrium of institutions and opinions is restoring or about to be restored.
Page 132 - William felt, was not so much about the certainty of the result as the means of attaining it, for on this all would depend. On this point he was anxious, and not unjustifiably so, seeing that his best expectations might be thwarted by the choice of bad instruments. Time will alone test the measure, the plan of which is so generous and philanthropical, and on which the government, to its honour, has experimented. Whether in parliament or out he was constantly employed in writing or editing. He wrote...
Page 25 - With untiring diligence and great constructive power he prepared draught constitutions, and investigated the relations between the Imperial Government and its dependencies. Starting from a small minority, he brought the public and Parliament over to his side, till principles once considered as paradoxes came to be regarded as axioms. By such means he fairly won the position of Secretary of State for the Colonies, but he did not live to enjoy the prize which he had grasped. Before we...
Page 26 - ... destinies of every British community planted on the face of the earth. The best monument that could be raised to him would be a complete collection of his parliamentary speeches ; the noblest epitaph that could be inscribed on his tomb would be the title of the ' Liberator and Regenerator of the Colonial Empire of Great Britain.
Page 17 - House and the public may be able to place reliance ; and declaring, with all deference to the constitutional prerogatives of the Crown, that her Majesty's present Secretary of State for the Colonies does not enjoy the confidence of this House, or of the country.
Page 139 - One of Sir William's early observations, from its plain good sense, we remember: " It has been frequently said, but the evidence of it has not been sufficiently displayed and enforced, that no colony is other than hurtful to the mother country which does not repay its own expenses. The proposition, indeed, is self-evident, for what does a country get by a colony for which it is obliged to pay, and from which it receives nothing? How many times more valuable the free trade of the United States, than...