Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Letter to a Late Cabinet Minister on the Present Crisis At the present eventful moment, when a dissolu tion of Parliament appears all but inevitable, it becomes the sacred and imperative duty of every man, who possesses the elective franchise, and who desires to exercise that privilege honestly, manfully, and fearlessly, to inquire how far the pledges then given have been redeemed. To assist the elector in this important inquiry, the following brief statement of the leading measures of reform, passed during the last four years, has been prepared. Let every friend to rational improvement recollect by whom these measures were steadily sup ported, and let him mark well the men by whom they were, night after night, perseveringly; and factiously resisted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.