Sir Robert Peel.

Reform Bill.—“Time and good patience may reconcile me to physical pain or moral danger, but to this measure I never can become reconciled. The more I consider it, the more I am satisfied of its dangerous and mischievous character.”—April, 1832.

Malt Tax.—“With respect to the total repeal of the Malt Tax, he still adhered to the opinion he had stated in the last session—the House could not consent to such an excessive reduction of taxation, as would be implied in the repeal of the Malt Tax.”—Feb. 27, 1834.

Pension List.—“You are now going to dry up the sources of that power of bestowing rewards for service, which was once considered essential to the well-being of the state. I challenge you to produce the instances in which there has been a corrupt appropriation of the pension fund. I admit that pensions have been granted as acts of royal favour, without reference to public service.”—May 5, 1834.