Excerpt from Memoirs of the Right Honourable William, Second Viscount Melbourne, Vol. 2 of 2Althorp, who sympathised at heart with a growing desire of his supporters for a remedial change of policy, told the Cabinet that he could not resist successfully in debate the reappropriation of surplus ecclesiastical funds, and Russell told the House of Commons that, in or out of place, he should vote for the adoption of that principle. Stanley, Graham, Richmond and Ripon held the title of the Anglican establishment to all church property in Ireland to be inde feasible, and failing to enforce their view in council, on the 27th of May, resigned. Their places were filled up by the promotion of Spring Rice, Lord Auckland, the Marquis Conyngham, and Poulett Thomson. The administration, thus modified, held together for a few weeks longer, but on the question involved in the renewal of the Coercion Act it was doomed to founder. Althorp and four of his colleagues were for abating materially the exceptional rigour of its enactments. Mr. Littleton had privately told o'connell that the Viceroy and he were for omitting the political clauses, and that the bill would be brought in without them, whereupon the Repeal candidate for Wexford was induced to withdraw in favour of the Whig, and an address to the Radicals of England denouncing the Prime Minister, which was actually in type, was withheld by o'connell. Mean while the unaltered act was brought before the Cabinet by the Premier, who cited a despatch of Lord Wellesley declaring it to be indispensable. But a subsequent letter from him.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.