344 The Coronation Oath, and the Cabinet. [ APRIL; 
a two-fold salary, amounting to eight thousand British pounds, we know 
of none in the possession of this noble lord, who, by the by, is in the 
receipt of some thousands a year, besides, from a large sinecure in the 
King’s Bench. Why the nation should thus pay about ten thousand 
pounds a year for the services of Lord Ellenborough, however rich his 
ringlets, or high his eonception of his own merits, we profess ourselves 
totally at a loss to imagine. Our opinion is that the nation would not 
perish even if his lordship were, to-morrow, to throw up his functions, 
and retire, for life, to his looking-glass. 
Then comes Sir George Murray, a good hard-working soldier, we have 
no doubt, though we are by no means in the habit of connecting superb 
military reminiscences with the name of Murray. We have had enough 
of them in the service, for public experience, and we as little desire their 
following in the cabinet as their leading in the field. In fact, we have a 
good deal of dislike, suspicion, and disgust, at seeing this man, the noto- 
rious confident of the marshal’s military career, exalted into one of the very 
highest places of confidence in the minister’s Cabinet career. It is not 
the custom of Englishmen to have the laws of civil life made or admi- 
nistered by soldiers. Let Sir Francis Burdett, and the mendicant fol- 
lowers of that political mountebank, take up his jackanape’s maxim, that 
soldiers are the very men to manage the British government. We shall 
chime in with the radical, when we shall think that the sword is a safer 
instrument than the constable’s staff, that an order from the provost 
marshal is more suitable to a free country than a Habeas Corpus, and 
that a drum-head Court-martial is the finest possible substitute for the 
Trial by Jury. On the whole we should feel no compunction whatever, 
if Sir George Murray were kicked out before next roll-call. 
The chancellor comes next ; and we join in the universal opinion of 
the chancellor. Enough is said. He has the merit of being a convert 
on the shortest notice. As to his personal virtues, private morality, and 
pecuniary independence, we know no more than we do of Lady Lynd- 
hurst’s. We hope the best of this well-matched couple ; but would have 
no objection to see his lordship kicked out, to-morrow, in the most sum- 
mary, contemptuous, and returnless manner. 
So much for the Cabinet of England ; so much for the governors of 
the first and freeest of empires; and so much for the security, honour, or 
dominion, of England, while tergiversation is the triumph of politics, 
while the last year’s speech of every man is the bitterest rebuke of his 
this year’s speech, and while the most unblushing political effrontery, 
even to the open avowal that the constitution is to be broken in upon, is 
the merit that distinguishes one man from another, and confers the 
supremacy of defection upon that most odious of politicians—the home 
secretary. That there would be some difficulty in making up such 
another Cabinet we readily allow: for we hope, for the honour of 
England, and human nature, that such another display of political slip- 
periness is not to befound. But, in point of ability, we could match it 
from any dozen clerks in Whitehall ; and, in point of public confidence, 
could match it from the first dozen men whom we met in the streets, let 
them be who or what they may. We call upon our countrymen still to 
rouse themselves ; to express, in the boldest language of truth, their abhor- 
rence of, what the Attorney-general has justly called, The “ Arrocious 
Bru,” and ofa faction whose triumph is pregnant with the most fatal 
consequences to all that we value. Once more we say, Englishmen must — 
never despair.—“ No surrender.”— So, help us, God !” 
