390 GOVERNMENT, LAWS, [PART II. 



JERRY BENTHAM, the new Mentor of the West 

 minster Telemachus, knows about the political 

 part of the American governments. Jerry, 

 whose great, and, indeed, only argument, in 

 support of annual parliaments and universal 

 suffrage, is, that America is so happy under 

 such a system, has, if we were to own him, 

 furnished our enemies with a complete answer ; 

 for, they have, in order to silence him, only to 

 refer to the facts of his argument of happy ex 

 perience. By silencing him, however, I do not 

 mean, the stopping of his tongue, or pen; for 

 nothing but mortality will ever do that. This 

 everlasting babbler has aimed a sort of stiletto 

 stroke at me ; for what God knows, except it 

 be to act a consistent part, by endeavouring to 

 murder the man whom he has so frequently 

 robbed, and whose facts and thoughts, though 

 disguised and disgraced by the robber's quaint 

 phraseology, constitute the better part of his 

 book. Jerry, who was made a Reformer by 

 PITT'S refusal to give him a contract to build a 

 penitentiary, and to make him prime adminis 

 trator of penance, that is to say, Beggar-Whip- 

 per General, is a very proper person to be 

 toasted by those, who have plotted and con 

 spired against Major Cartwright. Mr. Broug 

 ham praises Jerry : that is enough ! 

 406. In the four New England States, the 



