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V " ' Trim — To be made a major first opportunity, aod, as your honour 

 knows, God bless you, to be placed in the way of higher preferment.' 



" ' Uncle Toby — And if a major should lend his general all his foi-tune, say 

 thirty thousand pounds, ior example, what then?' 



Trim — .To be placed in the general's shoes, your honour, before the end 

 of the campaign.' 



This is, we admit, quite satisfactory. There is reason in this merit, and 

 there is point too in the argument, which Mr. Sugden and another learned per- 

 sonage will be at no loss to comprehend.' 



" This was published on the 30th of May. Sh- E. Sugden was appointed, (not 

 by the lord chancellor, but) by the king's solicitor-general on the third of 

 June; and this Lord Lyndhurst calls a libel upon himself. Now, we implore 

 any rational man to consider it calmly, and say whether, supposiiog the 

 ' learned personage' alluded to mean Lord Lyndhurst (a strained hypothesis, 

 beyond dispute), to say whether it imputes any guilt to the lord chancellor ? 



" The only person, that, under any circumstances, would have a right to 

 complain, is the solicitor-general. And we should like to see that respectable 

 law officer, fresh from his Weymouth dispute about the expenditure of six 

 thousand or nine thousand pounds, as the price of his unbought election, pro- 

 testing against an insinuation, that he could advance money with a corrupt 

 design. 



" The utmost inference unfavourable to Lord Lyndhurst, that can be deduced 

 from the article, admitting the inuendos, is, that Lord Lyndhurst is a 7ieedy 

 man. But who will pretend that to say of a person unconnected with trade 

 that he is poor were a libel, even if it were false .'' 



" We repeat it, that it is impossible to believe Lord Lyndhiu-st a volunteer 

 in this case. But, whoever may be the mover, we apprize him that he will 

 fad. Even in England the suppression of public feeling must cost a struggle, 

 in which the aggressors will meet an opposition to which what they now com- 

 plain of shall be as the spring shower to the pelting of a November storm. 

 And, if the press be suffocated in England by corruption on one side or 

 coercion on the other, thank God the continent will be still open for the voices 

 of the exiles of freedom. Holland may serve again as the mouthpiece of Eng- 

 lish and Protestant principles, as Holland has served before, and effectually 

 too." 



Franklin said, and said truly, that the expenses of a republic might 

 be paid out of the waste of a monarchy. We by no means love either 

 the Economics of Franklin, or the republic that he worshipped, so 

 much as to swear by them ; and yet there are instances of waste that 

 would justify strong discontent. If radical Hume had not shown that 

 the tribute of rabble popularity, in the shape of quart-pots and ill spelt 

 addresses, was his supreme object, he might have done something. He 

 squabbled fiercely for a while, and frightened the treasury clerks with 

 the prospect of giving them some heavier occupation than reading the 

 newspapers, and looking at their horses parading in the shade under 

 their windows, until the glad hour of three let them loose to " take their 

 ride" through the park, and consider at what table of the comme ilfaut 

 they were to condescend to dine. But his incorrigible radicalism, the 

 vidgarity of his sneers, and the shallowness of his capacity, disqualified 

 him from any thing beyond terrifying the trim gentlemen of the 

 finances, and bringing down all the minor officials of the Treasury 

 Bench, those gentlemen who are to be " ready to answer the question of 

 the honorable member on the opposite side," with their pockets fuU of 

 extempore speeches, and their hands loaded with paper bundles and 

 red tape. The Greek Loan affair finished his chance of service for 

 either good or evil. The after-thought of squeezing his interest, no less 



