Oriental politics, and distinguished himself so much upon Indian and Egyptian queftions, as to be called, by way of pre-eminence and contradiftinction, " Egyptian Jones," to this day. Vifcount Caftlereagh will, of course, be difpofed to choose Mr. Jones for his model; and, as he is long-winded, will probably outftrip his prototype, who was only great at a burst. Mr. S. Bourne, Mr. Long, Mr. Ward, &c. will probably follow the courfe of Sir John Nicholl -now the lawyer-now the financier-now the politicianthrough all the variety of defultory debate. Having · thus sketched what ought to be your general plan, let me now recommend fome fpecial rules for your conduct in particular cafes. If you are ashamed of the fmallness of your number, but find it neceffary, either for the purpose of afcertaining your real ftrength, or fome other object, to go to a divifion, be fure to fend one tried friend or two, if you have fo many, to the minifterial fide of the Houfe, with inftructions to vociferate, "6 Question, Question!" You may then allege, in defence of your little minority, that the queftion was preffed by your opponents; that you were taken by furprife; and that a great many of your ftaunch friends had left the Houfe, not apprehending that there would be a divifion. Had this ma nœuvre been executed on Monday night, you would not have expofed your weakness. The minifters, powerful in talents and means, will difdain to practise any paltry trick or ftratagem, and will attempt to bear you down by the weight of argument and force of eloquence. What you want in ftrength, you must endeavour to make up for in cunning, in dexterous manœuvres, and rufes de guerre. If a handful of raw recruits, juft raised under the parith bill, were to re main inactive, within view of a numerous and welldifciplined veteran army, led on by able and experi enced generals, they must foon be diffipated, without ftriking a blow; their fears would hourly increase, until, until, panic-ftruck, they would take to their heels, or furrender at difcretion, the very moment the enemy put themselves in motion for an attack. You must not, therefore, at any time, fit ftill, and in a scattered line, upon the oppofition benches, with the ministerial army drawn up in battle array against you, fcowling defiance, and every moment threatening to fweep you away. No, you must be active and stirring; you must be ever upon the alert, and affect a vigilance that nothing can escape. You need never be at a lofs for matter; any fubject will fuffice.-Rather than fit filent, if nothing better occur, you may ask, to what number the German Legion is to be carried? It is, no doubt, a matter of no confequence whether it is to be 13,000 or 18,000, but don't you mind that. The question fhews to the public, how jealous you are upon the subject of admitting foreign troops into the country, and will gain you the reputation of zealous defenders of our laws and liberties. In like manner, if you are fure that the plan for the defence of the country, or any other great expected measure, is not yet ready, fhould you fee the Secretary at War in his place, afk him, when he will bring it forward? You know very well that he cannot tell you; but the queftion will fhew, that he is not as expeditious as you expected; and it is a fort of notice that, you will take an active part in the difcuffion of the question; although, probably, you do not intend to give yourself any farther trouble about it. Upon the fame principle, you fhould be always moving for papers and accounts, though you do not intend to make any ufe of them when you receive them. The clerks in the feveral offices, who must work night and day to prepare them, will proclaim you through the town as the most troublesome Oppofition they ever knew; but this very eharacter is a proof of your extraordinary diligence, and that nothing can efcape your vigilance and inquiry." March 7. THE THE NEW OPPOSITION. [From the British Prefs.] WE lately stated, that the report of the death and burial of the New Oppofition was only a feint, a mere rufe de guerre. The thallow artifice was not likely to impofe upon the public; and it fcarcely required our warning voice to tell them, that this pretended death was borrowed from the example of Sir John Falstaff; a ftratagem dictated by cowardice and imbecility. The Editor of the Jacobin print appears, however, to have been the complete dupe of this fhallow manoeuvre. On Friday last he was convinced that the New Oppofition was dead and gone, and that none but "factious" men could fuppofe its poffible exiftence. Had he been in the House of Commons on Monday, how muft this fimpleton have been furprifed, on beholding the Caftlereaghs, the Cannings, and the Percevals, the very Oppofition which he fancied in its grave, looking quite alive, and frowning dehance in the face of Mr. Windham ! Beholding this unexpected refurrection, he would have probably exclaimed with Hamlet, when he fees the ghoft of his father "Let me not burft in ignorance; but tell Hath ope'd its ponderous and marble jaws, We fear, however, that to fuppofe the print to which we allude, the dupe of the party, is too charitable a construction of its conduct. A more ready tool tool for the propagation of falfehood and flander has feldom made its appearance. Upon the firft formation of the prefent Miniftry, it was reprefented as a paltry fcramble for places and penfions; a miferable struggle for bread and cheefe; a little mercenary anxiety to provide for hungry dependents. How the turned out Minifters could think that they were ferving their caufe, by dictating fuch language to their creature, we cannot conceive. Are thefe the fentiments with which the Caftlereaghs and the Cannings came into thofe offices from which they have been lately driven? Perhaps Mr. Canning was afleep when he killed hands on his appointment as Treasurer of the Navy; and Vifcount Caftlereagh was, no doubt, half-hanged, or well flogged, to extort his confent to become President of the Board of Control. But if the Castlereaghs and Cannings accepted places with their eyes open, and high and important, offices of state afford fuch temptation to fordid avarice, never, furely, was a Miniftry that had fo little right to complain as the late one. Twenty years of place and power were furely fuffi cient, with only ordinary care and diligence, to lay up fomething for old age, and provide for hungry dependents. It is the ftale trick of every Jacobin and agitator, to represent an ambition for office in this fordid light, divefted of every generous motive; but, for the falfehood of the fuggeftion we need only refer to the cafe of Mr. Pitt. According to the reafoning of the Jacobin print, Mr. Pitt must have died as rich -as Crofus, yet Mr. Pitt died 50,000l., in debt. It is a fact, that Mr. Pitt's falary, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and First Lord of the Treasury, with the addition of that valuable finecure, the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, was not adequate to a dignified fupport of his official rank and ftation. The fame may be faid of the falary of the First Lord of the Admiralty. Unless then, Mr. Grey, or Lord Henry Petty, had ample ample fortunes, fo far from feathering their nefts by the profits of office, they must draw upon the purfes of their friends, and run in debt, like Mr. Pitt. It is impoffible to reprobate, in terms of too great severity, those wicked and malicious mifreprefentations, the object of which is, to degrade the Government in the eyes of the people. We will lofe no opportunity to expose them to public contempt; and, therefore, muft not now pass over unnoticed fome new obfervations of the fame clafs, which have appeared in the Jacobin print. Having exhausted its vocabulary in a series of invective against places and penfions, it opened a new fource of abufe on Saturday. That we may not be charged with misrepresentation, we will quote its own words: "It is really cruel," fays the Jacobin print, alluding to the new Minifters, " to attempt to interrupt them in their career of enjoyment, and to disturb that harmonious interchange of feafts and dinners, the accounts of which fill the columns of the Ministerial papers, to the great edification and joy of the people. We inferted yesterday, a lift of four Cabinet dinners in one day, to convince our readers, how merrily we live, that Minifters be;' and, thus far we think it neceffary to fay in their defence, that it was highly indecorous and unreasonable to expect, that the first thing they would do when they got into place, would, or could be, to pore over plans and dry details: as if a man who had thrown by a threadbare coat, and put on a new one, thought at all, in the first instance, of going to work. No, no; he must go about and fhew it, vifit his friends, and junket with them; afk them how he looks in it? and whether they like the colour, the cut, and the cloth? After having been fo long condemned to the bleak and barren regions of Oppofition, can we complain that the new Minifters, now that they have got into the fertile and productive fields of Patronage and Power, feaft and make merry?" Every ་ |