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science on which every body may lecture with rival profundity, novelty, 

 and example; it supplying the ignorant with instantaneous knowledge, 

 the stupid with intuitive sagacity, the narcotic with glowing eloquence, 

 and the silent among the souls of men with argument eternal. Fifthly, 

 because it is the peculiar science of those peculiar friends to England 

 and her establishments, the Edinburgh Jacobins, the Paris Jacobins, 

 the Dublin Jacobins, and the London Jacobins. Sixthly, because it is a 

 science comprehending all other sciences, and capable of being naturally 

 diversified and embroidered by digressions upon every subject compre- 

 hensible by the " energies" of man, or the boundless literature of a travel- 

 ling tinker or lecturer ; relieving a discussion upon poor-rates by an 

 episode on the seraglio, the new receipt for water-proof leather, the 

 history of Lady Ellenborough's Apotheosis, and the private memoirs of 

 Mademoiselle Jelk, the reigning ornament of the Adelphi. Seventhly, 

 because it is the science that feeds Mr. Maculloch's pen, and empties 

 Mr. Huskisson's pocket ; that has fixed the one in a professorship ; and 

 turned the other out of every thing but the seat for Liverpool, out of 

 which we predict that he will speedily be turned, never to return. 



With this strong consciousness of the blessings of Political Economy, 

 let none suppose that we .would whisper a syllable in its dispraise. 

 Quite the contrary. As one of our poets of the Political Economist 

 school of poetry sings: 



Hail for ever, Huskisson ! 

 Of the mightiest, mightiest one ! 

 First of English, first of Scotch, 

 Fittest our finance to botch; 

 Fittest of all ministers 

 To awake the House's jeers ; 

 Fittest of all geese to write 

 Notes at " two o'clock" at night; 

 Fittest to get footman's warning, 

 Dated (i ten o'clock" at morning ; 

 Fittest thy own fall to spout, 

 When his Highness tossed thee out ; 

 Mighty soul of mighty mouse, 

 Fittest to amuse the House, 

 When with roars the laughing tribe 

 Heard thee all thy woes describe ; 

 Fittest for Maculloch's List 

 Hail ! thou great Economist ! 



As to the effects of the Huskissonian principles (!) we sincerely absolve 

 that memorable statesman and philosopher from all blame; for the busi- 

 ness of statesmen and philosophers being solely with the origin of things, 

 the ultimas causes, or primary conceptions of those noble discoveries that 

 are to restore (or upset) mankind, they are fairly disengaged from all 

 human responsibility for the results. We are perfectly convinced that 

 Mr. Huskisson was so far from intending that twenty thousand Spital- 

 fields weavers should be thrown out of bread within the first week of his 

 triumphant theory, that he actually thought his activity would have had 

 quite the contrary effect : that twenty thousand more weavers would be 

 set to work, and that they would all have double meals. If in this he 

 made a " trifling mistake," it was any thing but a mistake of the heart. 

 But to our topic, gin ! Science leads one of the new school naturally to 

 think that the cultivation of French silks, gloves, &c., is a suitable object 



