340 Notes of the Month on Affairs in General. [ 



The Treasury Bench is open to him. There is not a man upon it fit to 

 " asperge his shoes/' as Lord Alvanley phrases it. And as for Welling* 

 ton ; the field-marshal, however angry, can shew it only by shooting 

 him, in which case we recommend the application of a Jieri facias to 

 his Grace, and a latitat to the lawyer. Then comes Hume, radical to 

 the midriff, and indeed not knowing how to be any thing else, member 

 for Middlesex, sole member; for his worthy colleague, Byng, is not worth 

 a straw, so far as brains go. Then Sir Robert Wilson, radical to the 

 extremity of his understanding (sole member, for we suppose his hatter- 

 colleague will not trouble him much), and now Lieutenant-General 

 besides, and capable of taking command on a much more showy scale 

 than any thing in the shape of a Tyburn-gate quarrel. Then Waith- 

 man and Wood, a pair of asses, but accustomed to the radical pannier, 

 and equal to their weight. Hunt and Cobbett are still deficient. But 

 they will come yet. " Fine times you young people will see,'/ said 

 Voltaire, when he cast a glance over the Parisians prating about the 

 Rights of Man. 



We want no revolution here, and we shall cheerfully join in the 

 hanging of the first radical representative who proposes to compile one. 

 But we shall see things yet that our forefathers have not seen. 



In the mean time we give a list of the prices which it cost to be an 

 orator, or have the pleasure of listening to Sir R. Peel's speeches on 

 the constitution, in the last Parliament. 



The last Leicester election cost Mr. Evans 19,000/., Otway Cave, 

 10,000/., Sir Charles Hastings, 16,000/., and the corporation, 16,000/., 

 in all, 61,000/. -Warwick costs 27,000/., without bribery; Stafford, 

 1 4,000 /., where the voters displayed the Beaumont cockades, said to be 

 worth 51., each, in their hats. The china of the Camelford voters was 

 occasionally wrapped, by accident, in one pound bank-notes. The 



Northumberland elections cost a very large sum ; Mr. Bell proa^r 

 paid between 60 and 70,000/. for his seat of two months from February^p, 

 and his four sessions' seat from July, 1826. Mr. Liddle probably 

 50,000/., Lord Howick, 12,000/., and Mr. Beaumont was charged up- 

 wards of 100,000/., though he contrived to pay a much smaller sum. 

 Yorkshire cost Mr. Marshall 30,000/. ; and in 1806, the same county, 

 in the great party contest between Earl Fitzwilliam and the Earl of 

 Hare wood, cost the former 150.000/., and the latter 160,000/., whose 

 son, the present Earl of Harewood, then Viscount Lascelles, lost the 

 election ; 40..000/. were raised by subscription to support Mr. Wilber- 

 force, but only 25 3 000/. were expended, the remainder being given by 

 the Committee to various public charities. The contest between Lord 

 Belgrave and Sir J. C. Egerton, for Chester, cost Lord Grosvenor 

 70,000/. ; and eventually, it is estimated, more than 300,OOOZ." 



We say, down with the buyers and sellers both, and long live KING 

 WILLIAM ! 



