Lord Melbourne's Administration has had the great merit of being liberal, and at the same time prudent, conservative in the good sense of the word, preserving what was good.

Monarchy, by an adherence to this system, was very safe, and the popular liberal cry needless.
[Footnote 42: 1830-1834.] [Pageheading: KING LEOPOLD'S ADVICE] (_Continued at_) LAEKEN, _21st May._ I regret that the Corn question was brought forward somewhat abruptly;[43] it is a dangerous one, as it roused the most numerous and poorest classes of society, and may easily degenerate into bloodshed.

The dissolution under such circumstances would become still more a source of agitation, as it generally always is in England.

Lord Melbourne, I am sure, will think so too.
I am delighted by what you say of Albert; it is just the proper line for him to take, without biassing you either way, to show you honestly the consequences which in his opinion the one or the other may have.
As he has really a very clear and logical judgment, his opinion will be valuable for you.

I feel very much for you, and these Ministerial complications are of a most painful and perplexing nature, though less in England than on the Continent, as the thing is at least better understood.