text:  But while driven from these points--while forced to acknowledge the ability and judgment with which the present Governor-General has applied the forces of the empire to retrieve our honour and reputation in the East--while unable to point to a single practical measure as either improperly taken or improperly omitted by him the Whigs could not refrain on some pretext or other from marring the general joy by the discordant hissings of an impotent envy