404 Notes of the Month on [ APRIL, 
the clamour, after all, was of a more intelligible description ; and this, 
‘we pronounce, has totally failed. The infamous calumnies on the Duke 
of Cumberland’s character, were not let fly without their object ; and 
the black box was an “ infernal machine” for other explosions than 
those of the poor Captain’s obloquies against the cruelty that refused 
to supply him with money ad libitum, The royal Duke’s firm defiance 
has turned round the charge: he has demanded of his calumniators 
that they shall put their slanders into shape, and suffer him to give 
them the opportunity of proving them before a court of justice. He 
has solemnly and publicly denied, scorned and taunted, his calumnia- 
tors; and where are they now? No where. Their slanders have 
shrunk into pitiful apologies, or blundering attempts to defend them- 
selves. As tothe other parties, let them answer, boldly, if they can, - 
why General Garth should have preserved letters written in the unre- 
strained confidence of married life, and speaking the idle gossip of the 
court circle, we know not, when we consider the habits of caution 
which his peculiar circumstances demanded? But why he should-have 
. suffered those letters to pass into the hands of Captain Garth, is a 
matter that requires clearing up, for the sake of the General’s character. 
However, so the matter lies, The Duke of Cumberland stands clear ; 
and that is the only point worth any rational man’s caring about. The 
intrigue against him is scattered into thin air, and the Duke will neither 
be frightened out of the kingdom, nor the attention of the public be 
diverted from the tremendous question on which its liberties depend 
for life or death, by this new bait flung to the whale. Mr. Peel must 
come as dry as ever to his old dry problems, and prose about. his “ two 
evils,” till he relieves the House of himself and the subject, by setting 
the whole five hundred asleep. 
THE LEAST OF TWO EVILS! 
When Satan, the father of lies, first exhorted” 
The mother of all men his will to obey, 
He made her tell Adam she would not be thwarted, 
And, like other women, she had her own way. 
’T was “ the least of two evils’—so Adam, deciding 
To please her, abandoned all else he held dear ; 
Though storming the conflict his bosom dividing, 
He yielded with many a. groan and a tear: 
He knew she was wrong, but he could not persuade her 
To choose, like himself, between darkness and light ; 
So rather than force her to yield, he obeyed her; 
Afraid to do wrong, more afraid to do right. 
Thus Peel, honest man! by the tempter exhorted 
To pull down the bulwarks of Church and of State; 
Assures us the Catholics will not be thwarted— 
Secure what’ you can—to resist is too late. 
Though awful the danger, if Papists lave power, 
The least of two evils is always the best : 
If we can have concord and peace for an hour, 
Let those who come after take care of the rest. 
But urged by necessity, plea of the devils! 
The Church he loved dearly, yet feared Papists-:more— 
So her cause he deserts as the least of “two evils,” 
And calling out “ Robbers!” he opens the door.—[ Standard. 
