They call themselves Conservatives, and wish to preserve every thing as it is.
In the case of Peter's proposed improvements and reforms the Church and the clergy were Conservatives of the most determined character.
To have told any individual Conservative,--Sir Orlando Drought for instance,--that he was abandoning all the convictions of his life, because he was a creature at the command of Mr. Daubeny, would have been an insult that would have moved even the Speaker from his serenity; but you can hardly be personal to a whole bench of Conservatives,--to bench above bench of Conservatives.