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the invaluable qualties of this individual. He has been in the House 
for about the same time as Peel, and endeavoured to craw! on in the 
same track. But there he failed. Peel crawled better—he was thrown 
back even by Peel, and that is enough to settle his claims for ever. At 
the Clare election he behaved in the silliest and most imbecile manner ; 
he bore all the cutting scorn of his respectable opponents, and all the 
impudent brutality of his disrespectable ones, including O’Connel, with 
the most babyish affectation of sensibility ; he wept, or pretended to 
weep, where another man would have manfully put down the ruffianism 
that was roaring round him, and triumphing over his foolery. He 
took all as tenderly as a school-girl, whipped for mislaying her sampler ; 
he abounded in compliments, to a set of rascals to whom it was a degra- 
dation for a gentleman to speak; and concluded his wretched exhibition 
by begging pardon of every body for every thing. During his whole 
parliamentary career, Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald has done nothing —has 
never distinguished himself by speech or action, or any attempt that 
could place him beyond the average of those good-natured gentlemen who, 
like Billy Holmes, are ready to take up with any thing that offers. We 
think that we could survive as a nation, even though Mr. Fitzgerald 
were kicked out. . 
Then comes Mr. Herries, whom we conclude to be a clever fellow 
from one fact—that being the son of a bankrupt, he has contrived to lay 
out the slight sum of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds on an 
estate! How he managed this piece of luck, Mr. Herries has never con- 
descended to explain. There was some growling at it when Lord Gode- 
rich proposed him as Chancellor of the Exchequer. But that innocent 
and silly lord having given him a regular character in the newspapers, 
and other matters of more importance having caught the public eye, 
Mr. Herries and his money were forgotten for the time. But we hope 
he may yet be indulged with the opportunity, which, to a man of his 
sensitive feelings, must be so extremely desirable. 
Mr. Herries is, in all points, utterly below notice as a debater ; and 
while his ability might be matched by any clerk, at five shillings a day, 
in any banker’s shop in London, we cannot think that the empire would 
be undone if Mr. Herries were kicked out. 
Then comes Mr. Goulburn. For this individual we have an especiat 
contempt, for Mr. Goulburn is a Saint. As such, we presume, he has 
found out that to keep in place is his first duty ; and, as such, Mr. Goul- 
burn, hitherto one of the most violent, determined, and furious, in his. 
hostility to the Papists, has thought proper to turn to the right about at 
the word of command, discover that all that he had been doing under a 
ministry which allowed a man to speak his own mind, was the height of 
error under a ministry which ordered a man to speak their mind; and is 
how a solemn, solid, stupid pillar of the apostacy. As a speaker, Mr. 
Goulburn has always been confused, prolix, and intolerable. His 
hew principles have not brightened his elocution in the most trivial de- 
gree; and we have arrived at the full conviction that the nation would 
not be undone by the most summary process of kicking out Mr. 
Goulburn. 
Then comes Lord Ellenborough, who, at present, rides double, being 
mounted on the privy seal and the presidency of the board of controul. 
His lordship is a handsome man, with a handsome head of hair, and a 
handsome wife; and beyond those qualifications for governing India, 
taking a two-fold share in the government of England, and receiving 
