text:  187 471 (1832) 275 383 (1835) 314 344 (1837) 373 283 (1841) Who was it but its founder that led the Conservative party through these successive stages of triumph? Who did so much as he to effect that gradual but decisive change in public opinion which in 1841 routed the Liberal Ministry in spite of their extraordinary exertions and advantages and placed a Conservative Government at the head of affairs? To enable us to appreciate the importance of that great victory and also the decision of character evinced on that occasion by Sir Robert Peel let us for a moment advert to the calm self-reliance with which amidst the breathless apprehensions and misgivings of his whole party he gave battle to the enemy--proposed the memorable vote of want of confidence and carried it by a majority of one