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MR. EDITOR,—Htact- perused with infinite sa-
tisfaction that atlinqe Letter, with which you
have recently eurich4- your columns, I mean Mr.
BUTTERWORTH'S Adill'eSS to Coventry. Perhaps
there never was presented in so short a comp iss
so complete a picture of what are the duties, and
what'ought to be the conduct, of a Member of
Parliament, expressed too in language so concise
yet so convincing, so forcible yet unassuming.—
It is a letter which well deserves to be engraven
on a column of adamant—and I am persuaded it
is deeply impressed on the memory of every well-
wisher to his country, who has had the happiness
to read it—and of whom by this time the number
cannot be few. It comes from the heart, and it
goes to the heart. I have frequently been asto-
nished how any Candidate for a seat in .Parlia-
tnent can profess that the sole guide of his con-
duct shall he the orders of his Constituents—for
their wishes become orders if such is to be the
result—thus evincing, that with a great parade of
liberty in his month, and the dignity ef a freeman
on his 'tongue, he is content to be sent into that
field of honourable exertion, a fettered slave, in
perpetual terror of the rod. When he has taken
his seat there he becomes a Representative of the
Commons of the Empire—bound to consult and
act for its welfare according to the dictates of his
conscience, if he means to do his duty. But to
hold forth that the Representative will be at the
beck of the Constituent, is unequivocally to declare
that the Representative will not do his duty, and
that, on occasion, he will not hesitate to sacrifice
the interests of the many to the caprices of a
few. I have also had equal occasion to wonder
at the perverted view of the opinions of others
which some men obtrude upon society, or rather
how ready they are to palm mipOh the world their
own,prepostetons conceptions as the sentiments
Of other people ; -a rem irkahle instance whereof,
'with your permission, I will relate. A friend of
mine, a man of:considerable proper-y, which has
heel) lone in his family, and which it is his plea-
. sere and his pride to heantify and improve, whose
-lands are well stored with substantial farm-houses
and comfortable cottages, who is himself a mem-
ber 'of the Society for the Encouragement of
-Arts, Mani:factures, and Commerce, a Stock-
hOlder,.and what is beyond all, a man; I have
no heitiition in saying, of a good heart, and a
solid understanding,. became obnoxious to this
•pecies of fraud in a rather peculiar manner. He
is indeed a humomirist, fond of a joke, and fond
of porter ; he likes to see the.f.rothloaming up,
and enjoys, if 1 may be allowed the expression,
the hubbub of the exhibition, but when he drinks,
hi- wisely puffs' it away, and permits only the
more solid particles to settle in his codstitution—
save at certain thnes,when it is his pleasuresoftly to
pour from the hulk as mallet- portion into a glass,
and sutler it to stand till a gentle smile radiates on
its surface; then may you see my friend and the
porter smiling at one another like a couple of
lovers ; and in this state he quaffs it off,_ both
and all, for in this state, it is to he ob-
served, time particles are all so happily ha-
lanced and blended, that no prejudicial effer-
vescence detracts front time calm comfort
of the draft. Well, Sir, on these occasions the
• time is. sacred with toy friend, no one is allowed
to approach him, and he then enacts with him-
self divers characters, according- as his fancy or
his humour prompts—he is sometimes a Doctor,
sometimes a Poet, now a Philosopher, and now
a Jack-a-dandy—a Patriot now, and now a mo-
derate man. These traits will let you a little into
the character of my friend, Mr. John Bull. The
Constitution has judiciously laid it down as a po-
litical maxim that the King can do no wrong.—
The Opposition (the froth as it were of the taut
Lard), but not with equal wisdom, hare laid it
down that the King's Ministers can do no right ;
but what says Mr. Bull ? lie says, I cannot Jetta-
low that. Now, Sir, it chanced one day, at Mr.
Bull's hour of•fancy, the sacred hour I have be-
fore inentioned, he had become in imagination a
flaming Patriot ; the door of his study was acci-
dentally ajar;---a person inquired of a new servant,
not broke in to the ways of the house, for Mr.
Bull, and was told he might be found in his study.
Thither he approached ; but was arrested before
his entrance by a vehement word or two, which
caused him to lie perdue to the end of the speech,
for the man was, in fact, the very thing which Mr.
Bull was at that moment in theory—these wicked
Ministers, vociferated Mr. Bull, are the bane of
the creation ; profligacy is in their right hand,
imbecility in their left, and their heads are cir-
semvolved with corruption ; they have deprived
us of every comfort (and he took a glass of pOrter),
they tax tie very air we breathe, they leave us
without enjoyment and without amesement, ex-
cept, added Mr. Bull in an under tone, which the
listener could not catch, the puppet-shows at Bar-
tholomew Fair and Palace-Yard—have they not ?
But it would occupy too much space to follow
Mr. Bull through time whole of his harangue,
with its exculpatory under-tones which he con-
' finned to mutter to himself, as they tickled his
fancy ; suffice it to say, that not one of the high
notes was lost upon the listener (I forget the
man's name), and he, conceiving himself too for-
tunate in becoming thus snugly possessed of Mr.
Bull's political sentiments to attend to any timing
else, hurries home, forms a thundering Petition to
Parliament for Reform, hawks it about amongst
Mr. tenants, cajoles them out of their sig-
natures, on pretence that it contains their Land-
{ lord's opinions, and (bat their signing would be

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most pleasing to him, and thus obtains a voltun-
!lions muster of hands to it (for Mr. Boll's te-
nants are• very numerous), and then gets it pre-
sented to the Legislature, as containing the sense
of Mr. John Bull. Now, from the premises, I
think it is apparent that the Petition contained
the nonsense of Mr. John Bull. The worthy Gen-
tleman, however, coming to the knowledge.of the
eircemstance, chuckled at it, and let it pass for a
while for the joke's sake, until, through the puri-
fying spirit of Reform, some of his out-houses
became set on fire. Mr. Bull now thought it
high time to speak in his real character, He,
therefore, collected his tenants and labourers in
his own immediate neighbourhood,and after thaek-
ing them for the compliment they intended him,
by adopting what they conceived to be his senti-
ments, requested them not to be taken in again by
any such mummery. One of his labourers then,
frankly declaring they would do any thing for
so good a master, begged he would inform
them what he would have them do to please
him best. Matthew, replied he, as you ask a se-
rious-question, 1 will give you a serious answer.
Labour diligently in the week day, go to Church
regularly on Sunday, join sincerely in the prayers,
attend to what is said horn the pulpit, and when
you get home apply it to yourselves, and you will
become sound politicians. You will be there
taught to be softer (here Mr. Bull coughed a
little), and au arch smile played on the features.
of his auditors. 1 observe that smile he said, and I
like a smile (ali ! John John !), and may no in-
temperate (lemon of envy, discord, and misrepre-
sentation ever deprive your honest countenances
of their smiles. Mr. Bell's cough ceased to
trouble him, he proceeded firmly, be sober, be
vigilant, for an adversary roameth about, seeking
whom he may devour. Say ye to Reim mers,
mend your own manners. Mr. 801 l concluded,
and retired amidst the bows of his tenantry. On
the next Sunday, out of compliment to Mr. Bull,
the church was crowded. 'lke worthy Clergy-
man of the parish, pleased to see it. though un-
conscious of the cause, prayed and preached with
most impressive fervour and animation ; and as
is generally the case when attention goes pre-
determined to be upon the alert, his doctrine and
his admonitions reached their hearts. His text
happened Co be, " And what cloth the Lord re-
quire of thee, 0 man, but to do justice, to love
mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God." He
painted a pleasing picture of a Christian Society,
each in his station endeavouring to do his duty ;
the rich protecting and comforting the poor,s--
the poor regarding their benefactors with a grate-
ful heart ; and both looking forward to their
reward in Heaven. He taught diem that reli-
gion was the solace of the soul, and that chear.
fulness of heart is consistent with purity of mind.
On returning home, -Matthew's heart was full,
the big tear trembled in his manly eye, lie kissed
his wife; he kissed his children,—Sarati ! he ex-
claimed, 1 cannot say meet) now, but the Squire
was light, and his Reverence was right. Retorna
roust begin at home—and it may not then be
wanted abroad. I'll have no wore to do with
Annual Ferment, and Unirersn? Suffering—but 111
go no more to the ale-house on a Saturday, that
I may be in a better frame of mind to attend
church or: Sundays. Sarah's tears flowed apace—
she thanked her husband—for site knew lie never
broke his word. Matthew's determination was
happily not singularhis neighbours adopted it—
nay it was even observed that Mr. Bull's study-
door became accessible at times and seasons when
formerly it had been inaccessible ; and you, Mr.
Editor, v ill, 1 ant sure, be happy to learn, that
it soon became found requisite to enlarge the old,
and to build new churches on Mr. Bull's estates.
In the main, I confess my sentiments agree with
those of Mr. Bull—there is room for amendment.
Let Members of Parliament reform themselves.—.
If many of thew more resembled Mr. BUTTER-
WORTH, they would he much wetter worth.
Your's, respectfully,
H.

Dec.l4, ISIB.

ROYAL ACADEMY.

The sixth and concluding Lecture upon thecon.
nexion of Anatomy with. the Arts olPesign, was
delivered yesterday evening. The Professor ob-
served, that tire Fine Arts derived only colla-
teral aid from this study, yet, nevertheless, the
pursuit of it. was the sole means of rendering
works able to stand the test of ages. It became
an Artist to study anatomy, rather as the
means, than as the end, of design. The artists of
.d»cient Greece, on account of religion and super-
stition, did not derive there acquaintance with the
science from the human body, nut from compara-
tive anatomy, or the dissection et
The Professor next adverted to the great dif-
ference in the varieties of the human spe-
cies, so much so as to cause many in-
genious writers to question whether they were
of the same order of beings ; but thiS was su-
perseded by the existence of the similar cir-
cumstances in the brute' creation. It was well
known that the Mandarins of China had fishes
m ultiplied in the most monstrous,forms, with fins
of the roost whimsical diversity. Barutow, when
travelling in Africa, tomtit that the lowest stature
of man, towards the coast, was six feet six, and
in the interior, the highest to be five feet five.—
After'some further observations from the Proles-
SOr, six men of the Life Guards, some of %%iron'
had been at the battle of Waterloo, exhibited the
broad sword exercise, for the purpose of display-
ing the complicated action of the muscles. Mr:
FUsELI was in the Chair, and the room was ex-
tremely crowded. 0;:e of the Persian Princes
was present, and appeared greatly interested
thronghoet, particularly at the exercise of the.
broad sword.