Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-06-24

most any time. When they who looked only to the
stability ofthe throne, rather to the security Of
their own places under the throne, were preparing,
in the anguish Of begun despair, to do that which
even they never would have dreamed of in the ex-
ercse of judiccus courage-when, even the
tors, who profess to despise that which they had
schooled themselves in oratory in hope Of obtain
Ing Were waverng and irrcsolute, or, at any rate,
wasting their time aad dissipatiDg their abilities in
Utopian projects and general reform, which never
were fitted, and prababy never intended, to come
into practical operation-when the very corner
stone of England's Palladium was threatened to be
moved from its place-when the most glorious leaf
10 the volume of her Liberties seemed about to he
given as dry stubbe to the blasts of anarchy-when
that Jury his Peers, by which Eng ands hest law
says that every shall be tried, in jeopardy
of being made piece of idle mummery-when
there was some danger that justice would fling
clean away the scales Of equity and the curtana of
mercy and grasp the crooked falchion of vengeance
with both her hands-wher, in short, England and
Englands veal were rocking to their very bases.
and the governors and the governed were in the
very act of being bL rst asunder, To meet again in
the collision of Irrational run-it then, then that
Erskine, with no weapon save that of truth, and no
auxiliary but that Of transcendaut aud overpower-
ing genius sprang forward at the very point of
extremity, and by preserving the integrity of the
law, worked at once the salvation of the throne
and of the people.
Such was the service which the late Lord Frs
kline at one time rendered to his country, and 10 hui
man nature: but nothing connected with individual
man is immortal. The good King OF the former
hour is forgotten, Tor the sake Of the better king OF
the presen-becnuse the one has the power of Civ
ing, while with the other all things at end;
the wonder of yesterday is lost sight of in admira
ton OF the wondcrof to-day, and the patriot OF for
mer year ceaset to be named, lest he should detract
rom the merits of the patriot of the present.
New men, like new shapes of Furniture and new
patterns OF dress. valuable because they fa-
shionable; while those to which mankind have
been long accustomed are, though they be ever so
much bstantlal or convenient, laid aside as
useless, because they are old. Lord Erskine lived
TO the extreme limit of mans duration; and though
he retained an uncommon degree of vivacity and
vigor TO the last, and never lost with the people
one title of that admiration which he had so glo.
rously won, yet among political men he received
not in lis last years that consideration which he
had commanded in the prime of his meritorlous
services. The fame of Lord Erskipe is still safe
enough, however, and though it were not, it is far
better that Eng glishmen should not be sufficiently
grateful to the men who saved their liberties
than that those Liberties shodld not have been
saved.
Ofthe existing members of the upper House
those whom provincial people talk OF most fire.
quenty, and look up to with most respect, as the
leaders of the Ministerial and the Opposition party,
| tho Earl Of Liverpool and Earl Grey: ani those
who live at distance anu have never had person
| al opportunities OF studying those nohlemen, run
| some chance of making an exchange IN several o
| their qualties-of picturng Liverpool, the steady
| Tory, man OF naughty bearing and austere
| front: and Grey, the consistent Whig as one who
is all mdness aad Cancellation to the people: but
the reality just much the reverse OF this as can
well be imagined. Liverpoo'i 'is one of the most
candid; or at least mild and kindly men living;
while Grey is naughty and stubborn to absolute
moroseness. The one seems universal phi!an-
thropst, whose house, whose hand, and whose
heart are open to every body; the other looks Il
proud and naughty baron, VINO would retire from
the contamination Of the people, shut himself up
within his castle, and command the falcons and
| dem-facons to play upon them from the battle
ments, if they would not set them gone from his
barunlal vicinity.