text:  But when the credulity of the poor was shown also in anticipating impunity for the leader of Repeal and upon the ground that ministers feared him when for this belief there was really much plausible sanction in the behaviour of the Whig ministers--too plainly it became a marked duty of Sir Robert Peel to warn them how matters stood; to let them know that sedition tended to dangerous results and that _his_ Government was bound by no secret understanding with sedition for averting its natural penalties