32 ULTRA RADICALISM. 



Is not the bond of union, by which Tories and Whigs of this class 

 are respectively held together, a bond of sheer conspiracy? In which 

 of these politicians do we ever recognize the slightest indication of a 

 regard for general interests ? Amongst the Ultra-Tories, futile and 

 mistaken though their views are, any one but a bitter partizan must 

 discern a palpable and pervading principle. The staunch maintainers 

 are, very generally, estimable members of society. The crotchet, by 

 which their minds are perverted to the extent of political imbecility, 

 viz. the absolute preference of antiquity, is nothing but the excess of a 

 holy and praiseworthy sentiment. There is certainly ground for a 

 constant joke against them, in the fact, that, in ninety-nine instances 

 out of an hundred, their social position does not appear susceptible 

 of advantage from change; but, as the old saying is, " a joke's a joke," 

 and, we will add, ought not, in serious matters, to be carried too far ; 

 nor can we, though, like other humorous persons, we often smile at 

 the complete coincidence between Ultra-Tory interests and Ultra- 

 Tory politics, deny these men the credit of really meaning well to 

 the Public, though they also are very fond of themselves. 



But och ! the Tory and Whig conspirators ! the men who, pro- 

 fessing the principles of public good, and upholding certain tenets in 

 pretended pursuance of that principle, are never found to hold on in 

 a straight course when the popular breeze has freshened into a gale, 

 and the cargo of their own gross selfishness is in danger of injury 

 from shipping a sea ! 



Cannot any mere tyro in politics fix upon many public men of this 

 description, held together by ihefadus Icetronum, without one jot of 

 real principle beyond the faith which selfish instinct prompts them 

 to keep with their own band, because they could not hope by indivi- 

 dual effort to sack so much booty, as by conspiracy ? 



We have been forced, by indignant feeling, to speak too bitterly 

 of such persons to admit of our selecting an instance from amongst 

 them. Pass we on then, after requesting our friends, the amateurs, 

 to strengthen their resolutions against associating with this worthless 

 herd, by mentally ejaculating the " Justum et tenacem propositi virum," 

 &c., whenever they meet with, or think of them. As Cromwell ex- 

 Claimed at Sir Harry Vane, so do we in parting, at the Tory and 

 Whig conspirators. " The Lord deliver us from them !" 



But who have we got to deal with next? the Liberal Whigs and 

 Reformers ? or, as we have taken the liberty to denominate them, the 

 Menders and Restorers ? Concerning party, we feel it difficult to ex- 

 press ourselves. We are conscious of considerable debt towards them, 

 for the go<3ds to which they have helped us, and which could not 

 have been safely acquired without their instrumentality. Our grati- 

 tude and good-will towards them makes us lament that we cannot 

 addict ourselves to their party. But here again we must qualify our 

 expression of dissent. We avow, then, that we rejoice in their occu- 

 pation of the helm of our good ship at present ; nor, till we have given 

 some of our younger hands a longer and severer trial, would we wil- 

 lingly trust ourselves to their pilotage in preference. We cannot give 

 Earl Grey, nor any of his Cabinet, except perhaps Lord Durham, 

 (we say perhaps, because we have not yet had quite experience enough 



