534 SIR W. FOLLBTT AT EXKTER. 



his besotted flatterers and pretended supporters in Church and State, 

 all these, will have enough political decency to acknowledge that Lord 

 Melbourne is a very remarkable exception to the general rule. But, Sir 

 William, if you persist in driving at power, and ultimately succeed, it will 

 be as well we should hint at some of the attributes necessary to be pos- 

 sessed by a minister,pre-determined to pursue a course of policy such as we 

 suppose you would have adopted had you remained in office ; but, thank 

 the gods you are out, and therefore we are left to imagine some 

 person very similar to Sir William, but not the said Sir William 

 Follett, who is a professional man. Well, then, we will suppose a 

 case. For example, we will suppose the person whom we would fix upon 

 to be cold, stern, crafty, and ambiguous ; he must be without those entangle- 

 ments of friendship, and those restraints of feeling, by which tender and 

 sensitive natures are held back from desperate enterprises. No ingenuous- 

 ness must betray a glimpse of his designs ; no compunction must suspend 

 the stroke "of his ambition. He must never be seduced into any honest 

 profession of precise public principle which might afterwards arise against 

 him as the living record of his damning apostacy ; he must be fully pre- 

 pared for acting every inconsistency, by perpetually veiling his political 

 professions in the dead-letter types of lofty generalities. The absence of 

 gracious and popular manners, which can find no place in such a cha- 

 racter, will be well compensated by the austere and ostentatious virtues 

 of insensibility. He must possess the parade without the restraint 

 of morals ; lie must unite the most profound dissimulation with all the 

 ardour of oracular and parliamentary prostitution ; he must be prepared, 

 by one part of his character, for the violence of a multitude, and by ano- 

 ther for the duplicity of a court. If such a man arose at any critical mo- 

 ment in the fortune of a state ; if he were unfettered by any extensive 

 political connexion ; if his interests were not linked to the stability of 

 public order by any ample property or large possessions ; if he could 

 carry with him to any enterprise, no little authority, and splendour of 

 character ; that man, indeed, would be an object of more national dread 

 than a thousand radical pamphleteers than your Humes and your 

 Roebucks, your Bulwers and your O'Connells, and all the host of them. 

 With this finished portrait, which, Sir William, is at your service, 

 and which you are bound to accept in courtesy at our hands, we take 

 leave of you for the present. O- 



FROM STATO, THE SARDIAN. 



FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY. 



OH, how I loved ! like the gorgeous sun, 

 (Firing the orient with a blaze of light) 



Thy beauty every lesser star outshone. 



Now, o'er that beauty steals the approach of night, 



Yet yet, I love, though in the western sea 



Half sunk, the day-star still is fair to me. 



