text: " It has been sounding ever since in our ears in the accents of national concord and of admiration of the Minister who in his very zenith of popularity and success perilled all to obey the dictates of honour and conscience fearlessly proposed a measure which seemed levelled directly at those gifted and powerful classes by whom he had been so long and enthusiastically supported; of the Minister who in fine looked and made the country look a frightful danger full in the face--till it turned and fled