text: _ As soon as the late Ministry and their adherents perceived that Sir Robert Peel's advent to power was inevitable they clamorously required of him a full preliminary statement of the policy he intended to adopt on being actually installed in office! By those who had floundered on session after session from blunder to blunder from folly to folly--each more glaring and destructive than the preceding one--he was modestly expected to commit himself _instanter_ to some scheme struck off to please them at a heat! A cut-and-dried exposition of his plans of domestic and foreign policy before it was even certain that he would ever be called on to frame or act on them; before he had had a glimpse of the authentic and official _data_ of which none but the actual adviser of the crown could be in possession