^niE KENTED MANOR. 01) 



seen more tliiiii u very few continue as aqueous 

 blisters on the political surface or become more 

 than a transient bubble. Of these I have seen one 

 or two make themselves so troublesome to the 

 existing Government, that their pretended philan- 

 thropy has been utterly extinguished or bought off 

 by the gift -of place: one or two may have held 

 their own for a time, but all very soon grew stale 

 and unprofitable, or were bribed. 



We do not meet those men on fair grounds, for 

 having nothing to lose they cannot be assailed by 

 loss ; and besides, there is an old saying as to the 

 consequent defilement on the touch of pitch. The 

 very little they have is in their pocket, — they have 

 no large estates, nor do they labour under difficulties 

 ever attached to landed property : so, like a vernal 

 frog Avho revels in weeds and mud, they can kick 

 up as much dirt as they please, and rise to croak 

 over the filthy confusion they themselves have 

 created. 



