150 THE SQriEE MEMBER FOE WEDLOCK. 



popular and monarcliical ingredients wliicli it was 

 supposed assured liberty and order, progress and 

 stability. But about the commencement of Mr. 

 Forester's parliamentary career parties bad been in 

 a great measure broken up into sections, if not into 

 factions — into Pelbamites, Cobbamites, Foxites, 

 Pittites, and Wilkites — the questions uppermost 

 being place, power, and distinction, ministry and 

 opposition — the Ins and the Outs. The Ins, when 

 Whigs, pretty much as now, adopted Tory principles, 

 and Tories in opposition appealed to popular favour 

 for support ; indeed from the fall of Walpole to the 

 American war, as now, there were few statesmen 

 who were not by turns the colleagues and the ad- 

 versaries, the friends and the foes of their con- 

 temporaries. The general pulse, it is true, beat more 

 feverishly, and men went to Parliament or into 

 battle as readily as to the hunting-field — for the 

 excitement of the thing. To epitomise, mighty 

 armies, such as Europe had not seen since the days 

 of Marlborough, were moving in every direction. 

 Four hundred and fifty-two thousand men were 

 gathering to crush the Prince of a German state, 

 with one hundred and fifty thousand men in the 

 field to encounter them. The English and Hano- 



