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THE BEST MEANS OF ENLIGHTENING AND IMPROVING 

 THE PEOPLE. 



" The BRST and noblest of the human kind 

 Are those endowed with a deep-thinking mind j 

 NOR are they useless, who such men obey, 

 Submitting still to wisdom's lawful sway: 

 But he who, though unfit his ways to rule, 

 Yet will not to a wiser go to school, 

 That man i$,sure t A GOOD-FOR-NOTHING FOOL." 



THERE is scarcely any thing more mortifying and disheartening to 

 an enlightened patriot, than to see the party to whom he wishes well, 

 throwing away the advantages that, lie within their reach, and putting 

 themselves in the wrong when their cause is the right one thus doing 

 themselves the double wrong of weakening themselves, both physically 

 and morally, both in strength and respectability. That they should be 

 unable of themselves to strike out a right path, however much to be 

 regretted, would yet be only their misfortune, and not their fault ; but 

 that, though incapable themselves, and conscious of that incapacity, they 

 should still shut their ears against advice when offered, is a degree of 

 infatuation that might go far to excuse many a sincere patriot from 

 having any thing more to do with them. However, as it is still our 

 duty to persevere, and neglect no opportunity of doing any good in em- 

 power, taking care only that we have done our best, and leaving it to the 

 public to profit by our labours or not I shall point out to them a few of 

 the more glaring errors and absurdities into which they are constantly 

 falling, and which it would be very easy to avoid ; and then subjoin a 

 few words of plain practical ADVICE, which it would be both easy and 

 highly serviceable to them to comply with. 



The errors of both parties, but especially of the Liberals, are of two 

 different classes, which must therefore be treated separately and dis- 

 tinctly : those respecting the END they have in view, and the MEANS 

 by which they seek to attain it. These are so distinct from each other, 

 that either of them may be perfectly right. 



And perhaps the most essential difference between the two great 

 parties into which England is at present divided, is, that each which is 

 most in the right as to the one, is most in the wrong as to the other ; 

 or, in plainer words, that the one party is right (or, rather, more in the 

 right) as to its end, and very wrong in the means it uses to attain it 

 and vice versd. Which is correct, it is probably needless to say. This 

 would therefore lead us to the painful conclusion, that the worst party is 

 likely to be the strongest, supposing them both to go on as they are doing 

 at present, and both to be, as they are generally considered at present, 

 pretty equally balanced as to their resources. But, on the other hand, 

 in having a better end proposed, the better party have an advantage at 

 the outset: so that, if they are only equal, or nearly equal (as they very 

 well might be if they chose it) to their opponents in tact that is, in the 

 management of their means they would then clearly have the ascen- 

 dancy, since " Truth and Justice are in their nature stronger than their 



