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lord; and that his numerous tenants were animated by a feeling of 

 enthusiasm in his favour, and prepared to risk their lives in defending 

 him at Clumber. Thus much for the genuine U lira-Tory maintainers. 

 Of course we need not beseech any of our friends not to attach them- 

 selves to the party of these men ! 



Next, for our Tory and Whig conspirators. We loudly protest 

 against allowing these men any longer use of the honourable title of 

 Party ! We trust the public is far advanced enough in political judg- 

 ment to be fully aware of the necessity of aiming henceforth at the 

 most logically correct application of terms. No observing man can 

 mix in society without conviction of the great mischief accruing to 

 amateur politicians, from the confused and indeterminate state of the 

 political nomenclature. For ourselves, considering politics insepa- 

 rably intertwined with moral truth, we are too deeply impressed with 

 the dignity of the subject to take it up as a vehicle for conversation 

 or display. This impression is of long standing with us, and we have 

 consequently addicted ourselves to politics as a task, full of the most 

 gratifying interest in every stage of advancement ; but still a task, 

 rather than an amusement. We could not help their soon finding out 

 the misapprehension and mischief resulting from the unrestrained 

 use of the current appellations of the political world. Hardly ever 

 were we present at a discussion on politics, but at least two indivi- 

 duals of the party separated in huff and* mutual misunderstanding, 

 through the too comprehensive or too contracted sense in which they 

 had respectively applied to themselves, or those they approved of, 

 some of the political designations of the day. 



We are not so Utopian as to believe that this mischief can ever be 

 got rid of entirely ; much less so egotistical as to expect a great deal 

 from our own efforts at purgation. But " every little helps/ 7 as the 

 old saying is, and in the hope of doing some slight service to the 

 cause of political truth we now write. 



We have learnt, then, for ourselves, to attach our own meaning to 

 all class designations, and should as soon think of painting a portrait 

 from a verbal description, as judging of a political pun or measure 

 from the current slang of politics. But our amateur political friends 

 seem to vis very generally careless in this respect. It seems enough 

 for their purpose to be able to maintain an opinion with some degree 

 of plausibility and consistency, or perhaps wit, in social converse. 

 We hardly ever meet with a talking politician, too seldom with a 

 writing one, who gives us the notion of having a mind duly conscious 

 of the existing state of party divisions, and made up, as to which of 

 them he is included in. In the hope of benefitting such persons, we 

 are now writing; and we conjure them, at all events, to deliberate 

 upon our suggestion, that the Moderate Tories and Party Whigs, as 

 they have hitherto been usually termed, should henceforth be 



( Toryl 



bracketted together, thus : -< and > conspirators. 

 (Whig) 



for ever babbling of manliness. Let the civil Duke reap the benefit of thy 

 vaunted liberality. " Rather extenuate than set down aught in malice" against 

 him. Believe, that had his heart notbeen a sound one, he would not have been 

 simple enough to blurt out the vox ineffabilis of borough-mongery, as he did. 



