702 Notes of the Month on Affairs in General. [JUNE, 



the young idea how to do as the sporting parsons do, (i. e. shoot,) has 

 been poisoned, for he 



" Blurs the very blush of modesty, 



Calls parsons hypocrites, takes off the rose 



From the fair forehead of an innocent church, 



And plants a school-room there ; makes bishops' vows 



As false as dicers' oaths. Oh ! such a man 



Would from the body of the hierarchy pluck 



The very soul, and state religion make 



A rhapsody of words." 



Bishop Porteus said that education was the palladium of civil and reli- 

 gious liberty, and the bulwark of the constitution. The tories say he 

 meant university education education in high church doctrines rights 

 of tythe the ninth shock the tenth sheaf. 



KING WILLIAM'S SOLITUDE. We have read of a mighty monarch, 

 who, in the very summer of his prosperity and power, retired from the 

 pomp and magnificence of a court into the silence and humility of a 

 monastic institution. Even in the present day, when the schoolmaster's 

 legs are outstretched, like those of the Colossus at Rhodes, from Shad- 

 well to the Land's End, it may not be altogether unnecessary to say, that 

 we allude to Charles the Fifth. With the secret politics of the Spanish 

 court we are only partially acquainted, but we think it reasonable to con- 

 clude, that the Emperor's retirement was caused in a great measure by 

 the unkind and unexpected resignation of his ministers. If Apsley-house 

 had stood in Madrid, this would not have been the case. The Duke of 

 Wellington would not have suffered his royal master to remain alone. We 

 are brought to this conclusion, by the magnanimous conduct manifested 

 by his Grace upon Lord Grey's resignation. Our excellent King was 

 left alone ; he experienced in his own person the force of Byron's descrip- 

 tion of solitude. Where then should he look for succour and assistance ? 

 The arms of the hero of Waterloo were open to receive him ! The Duke 

 of Wellington had read the bible, (in his school-boy days) and knew that 

 it was not good for man to be alone 3 he remembered the saying of Bal- 

 zac, that solitude was a pleasant thing, but that it was far more delight- 

 ful to have some one to whom we might say that solitude is a pleasant 

 thing. Said the Duke to himself, " I will be that man to his Majesty ! 

 The King is alone, and I will be with him ; he is deserted, but I will com- 

 fort him he is surrounded with dangers, but I will protect him !" Yes, 

 he who had professed himself averse to all reform, now declared his readi- 

 ness to bring in a strong measure of reform ; he who had designated the 

 Bill, in his protest, the commencement of revolution, was willing to 

 receive it with the kiss of brotherly love and fellowship. And why ? 

 not because the Premiership of England is any thing 5 not because the 

 patronage in the Church is any thingnot because the government of the 

 army, and the consequent ability to reward long tried bravery and moral 

 excellence in Major Dundas and his friends is any thing. No ! simply 

 because the King was left alone ! Down to the dust, Lord Chatham 1 

 Cover up your face for ever, Sir John Pym ! what have ye to do with 

 patriotism ? The Duke is the only true patriot the only apostle of justice 

 and truth in the land. Sir Robert Inglis did certainly hesitate to become 

 a member of the noble warrior's administration ; Sir Robert Peel did cer- 

 tainly somewhat demur to the Secretaryship of the Home Department; 



