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minority. The popish advocates, on the occasion, exhibited as contemp- 
tible a display as their partisans, and fully justified the long laments of 
the revolutionary journals on their wretched inferiority. We. disdain 
alluding to personal defects ; but what demon of burlesque could have 
driven that most helpless of decrepit haranguers, Lord Darnley, to ex- : 
pose the debilities of his understanding on so conspicuous a stage. Was 
there to be found among the ranks of political and personal foolery, no : 
less palpable and notorious a subject of ridicule than this poorest of poor : 
vilifiers of the nobility of England? Had not his annual admiralty 
harangues—his burlesque ignorance of every subject, beyond the details 
of a workhouse, or the detection of a peacher—the perpetual yawn of 
the House of Lords, and the general fugitatior, whenever he rose, 
given sufficient warning against the mischief that must result to any 
cause, luckless enough to have a supporter in Lord Darnley ? 
Then came my Lord Camden. This noble lord has, by that 
timidity which nature sometimes gives to save men of feeble powers 
from utter exposure, been kept so long from the public eye, that he 
might have been forgotten. But his exposure was decreed, and he 
must exhibit himself to his contemptuous country, in the character of a 
popish orator. We pass over the arguments of his speech ; if they could 
have, by possibility, convinced himself, it would be only a profounder 
instance of the emptiness of this venerable personage. But let us come 
to his facts—one of them is, “ that he put down the Irish rebellion.” 
With all our preparation to hear extravagance from the lips of the babes 
and sucklings’ of popery, we were not prepared for this monstrous 
aggression upon our understandings. Undoubtedly the newspapers say 
all sorts of extraordinary things, without the slightest consideration for 
the character of the persons into whose mouths they put them. But 
Lord Camden has not yet started forward to contradict this bitterest of 
all satires upon himself. We have heard of no sudden and indignant 
denial of this attribution of a public service, whose very mention should 
have stirred up his spirit from its lees, and made him demand whether 
the inventor of thetale was not actuated by a merciless determination 
to drag into light the public impotence of the ci-devant lord-lieutenant 
of Ireland. Lord Camden should have recollected, that, whatever 
quality of his nature was adverse to the length of his memory, his 
failure, his recall, and the mission of the Marquess Cornwallis to Ireland, 
were events too near our time to afford the colouring that the fancy 
loves. 
The Marquess Cornwallis gave the country the full benefit of con- 
trast; he was a man of sense and spirit, who found rebellion raging, 
and put it down ; who found the friends of the constitution shaken and 
scattered, and summoned them to its defence ; who found Ireland a 
burthen to the empire, and who, by the mixture of vigour with mild- 
ness, of justice with mercy, struck a blow at Irish Jacobinism from 
which it never rose, till it found how ridiculous a British Government 
could again be made by a ridiculous representative. 
The third orator was Lord Teynham. They could not have chosen 
a more appropriate sharer of the honour—England could not have fur-_ 
nished his rival. This noble personage, though not long in possession 
of his peerage, is already well enough known to require no description 
of ours. He is a peculiarly delicate topic, and we refer for his character 
to the newspapers. 
