exhausted, in the cause of my native land. Am I to renounce those habits now for ever, and at the beck of whom? I should rather say of what--half a minister-half a monkeya 'prentice politician, and a master coxcomb. He has told you that what he said of me here, he would say any where. I believe he would say thus of me in any place where he thought himself safe in saying it.-Nothing can limit his calumnies but his fears-in parliament he has calumniated me to-night, in the king's courts he would calumniate me to-morrow, but had he said or dared to insinuate one half as much elsewhere, the indignant spirit of an honest man would have answered the vile and venal slanderer with a blow.

ON THE NECESSITY OF REFORM.

AGAINST this inundation of evil we interposed reform -we were convinced of its necessity from the consideration of corruption at home; we were confirmed in that conviction from the consideration of revolutions abroad-we saw the regal power of France destroyed by debts, by expense, and by abuses we saw the nobility interfere for these abuses, only to encumber the throne with their ruins and to add revolution of property to revolution of government-we saw in the American revolution that a people determined to be free cannot be enslaved; that British government was not equal to the task even in the plenitude of empire, supported by the different governments of the provinces and by the sad apostacy of the hapless loyalist-that loyalist is a lesson to the rich and great to stand by their country in all situations; and that in a contest with a remote court, the first post of afety is to stand by the country, and the second post of

safety is to stand by the country, and the third post of safety is to stand by the country. In that American contest we saw that reform which had been born in England and banished to America, advance like the shepherd lad in holy writ and overthrow Goliath. He returned riding on the wave of the Atlantic and his spirit moved on the waters of Europe. The royal ship of France went down-the British man of war labours-your vessel is affected-throw your people over board, say your ministers and ballast with your abuses-throw your abuses over board, we said, and ballast with your people.

ON THE SAME SUBJECT.

THE minister's Devil went forth-he destroyed liberty. and property-he consumed the press-he burned houses and villages-he murdered and he failed. "Recall your murderer, we said, and in his place dispatch our messenger -try conciliation-you have declared you wish the people to rebel, to which we answer, God forbid !-Rather let them weary the royal ear with petitions, and let the Dove be again sent to the king-it may bring back the olive-And as to thee-thou mad minister! who pour in regiment after regiment to dragoon the Irish because you have forfeited their affections, we beseech, we supplicate, we admonish,—reconcile the people-combat revolution by reform-let blood be your last experiment. Combat the spirit of democracy by the spirit of liberty-the wild spirit of democratic liberty by the regulated spirit of organized liberty such as may be found in a limited monarchy with a free parliament. But how accomplish that but by reforming the present parliament,

whose narrow and contracted formation in both countries, excludes popular representation, that is, excludes selflegislation, that is, excludes liberty, and whose fatal compliances the result of that defective representation have caused or countenanced, or sanctioned, or suffered for a course of years a succession of measures which have collected upon us us such an accumulation of calamity; and which have finally, at an immense expence, and through a sea of blood, stranded these kingdoms on a solitary shore, naked of empire, naked of liberty, and naked of innocence, to ponder on an abyss which has swallowed up one part of their fortunes and yawns for the remainder.

However it may please the Almighty to dispose of princes or of parliaments, may the liberties of the people be immortal.