AT last; 



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" At last " exclaimed tlie honowmble geutk^man, " ait 

 opportunity wfis afforded liini/' &c. Let m see what reason 

 be liaJ to exult in tlie opportunity. Certainly have 

 now the issue to juJge frunL Wc liavo seen his 



1 Ltd idfTeEi^kloBS wieapon fkll ipnthout a HLroke { 



but let US see what he owes to those who fnruiishetl it ; 

 who sent him with armour that he haci not proved, to 

 face on the Parliamentary battle-field tiie giant TrL'TH. 



With regard to the witnesses whom we have cross- 

 examined, Mr. Earl and Mr. Brooke, it m most dcsii-able 

 for Mr. Hume's credit to think that he had never read 

 the woi'ks from which he quotes so pardaUy, that he 

 had trusted for a supply of fair arguments to those who 

 had first set liim up as their senatorial Thbiisites?, 

 and then deceived him. It will be observed that I 

 distinguish between Sir James and Air. Brooke ; allowing 

 'Mioijorable gentlemen" to reject him as unworthy of 

 credit, ever ahice his Sovereign inarkcd him as a \good 

 subject, and selected hini as a trustworthy representative. 

 As M?\ Brooke, he is only the private traveller, journal- 

 ising his progress as the custom is ; — antl, as such, credited 

 and quoted hi Mr. Hmm himself, hoaours not theu 

 having made him dishonourable, general admiration not 

 Jiaving made him an impostor, the confidence of the great 

 and the good not having worked him up to Ms present 

 unworthiness in the eyes of— I am ashamed, I hesitate to 



