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which I am lecturing you
matter to wh-o-

... And then every party man, no
siae ne is attached, must regard consistency ;
esmen Lord Palmerston is, among living men, the

and of
most consistent

" True as the dial to the sun,
Whenever it is shined upon."

He has consistently, through good report and evil report,

.. _
stuck to place.
1. Mr. Pitt was prime minister, and Lord Palmerston had

Mr. Fox was prime minister, and Lord Palmerston had

a place.
3. Lord Grenville was prime minister, and Lord' Palmers-
ton had a place.
4. Mr. Perceval was prime minister, and Lord Palmerston
had a place.
5. Lord Liverpool was prime minister, and Lord Palmers-
ton had a place.
6. Mr. Canning was prime minister, and Lord Palmerston
had aplace.
_ -

Lord Goderich was prime minister, and Lord Palmers-

ton had a place.
>n tiad' a place. - "-"•-- I ^,l Pal-
The Duke of Wellington was prime minister, and Lord
id a place.

breaks theseries—but not furlong. The Duke, hav-
ing resolved that there should be no mistake, fling Palmers-
ton out of office as unceremoniously as angry Jove, in Para-
dise Lost, flings Mulciber sheer o'er the crystal battlements.
The fall of poor Vulcan lasted
"'From morn to noon, from noon to dewy eve—
A summer's day."

His lordship's tumble was not of much longer duration ; he
was out about six months, during which time he played the

part of a flaming patriot. and the

10. Earl Gre

and Lord Palmerston

d a place.
11. Lord Melbourne %las pri

Peel came in for three or four months, and then Palmers-
ton had no place ' • but soon returned-
-12. Lord Melbourne, purged of Brougham, as prime mi-
!r, and Lord Palmerston had a place.
Had a place, do I say ? has a place. What's that Terence
qrs, Filiurn habeo, Menederne ;ah quid diai habeo P I
at all sure that the quotation is correct, 'rajas, be-
cause the last copy of Terence 1 had is gone the way of all
You understand Latin ; namely,
of State for the Foreign Depart-

rence's ad avuncolo.

hat or principal Secretar

my Fonbianque has pul
Administration

hed a book called " England
What is that to the work
" Palmerston under

ch the noble

,count might publish—

Stich an example of consistency

.ly to he matched in history

Therefore, shall Lord Palmerston receive no marks of con-
tumely from me ; and as for the ruin of England, I am aware
that, like a female friend of the late Duke of Queensberry,
Britannia takes a good deal of ruining. No, Tobias, my sor-

-ows.are much more practical. For the peace of the general
&odd, perhaps, but for the plague and annoyance of the
world beyond question, it pleased the Fates to
knd what are newspapers

newspapc _
bring.the war to an end in 1815

Treadmills, sir, conipired
ith the former pleasure gardens. Why, when the war
iged—raged, do I say ?—when the war sported, newspapers
wrote themselves. What had an editor to do but to slip his
scissors into the Gazette—and Extraordinary Gazettes were
in those days as plenty as blackberries—and whip out of it

they were then

krid what matter, Tobias !
God help your head! do not think that what you now read
in eazettes is to be compared with what was the

tter at a time

reading in

en 1 was

Calidus juventa,

Consule Planco

Or, as Lord Byron chooses to translate it—

"_ In my hot youth, when George the Third was king."

:ter stil

1, in MS. penes n,