text:  Such were some of the fierce elements of discord in full action when the affairs of the nation were committed by her Majesty to her present Ministers on whom it lay to promote permanent domestic tranquillity amidst this conflict between interests which had been taught that they were irreconcilable with each other; to sustain the public credit at once without endangering our internal peace and safety or compromising the honour of the nation in its critical and embarrassing foreign relations