"Will any one promise, like me, to oppose "All men and all measures, my friends and my foes?

"Like me, who can say, that he never was known "To adopt or support any plan but his own? "To the dictates of reason or feeling to bend? "In short, who can say, that he ne'er had a friend? “Have you eyes, have you ears, can you write, can you read?

"And do you yet doubt who is fit to succeed? "Did not BONAPART* make the Moniteur quote, "With ample applause, both my words and my vote? "And Denmark, enraged at her capital's breaches, "In bitter state papers make use of my speeches? "Do MADISON's journals not ring with my fame, "And place next to JEMMY's your SAMUEL's name? "Lo! MURAT the Great, (whom the Austrians fret,) "Lauds WHITBREAD the Great in the Naples Gazette;

*It would seem that the admirers of Buonaparte affect to call him by the French trisyllabic contraction of his name, while, elsewhere, the name is sounded as a quadrisyllable, agreeably to its true Italian pronunciation.

"And in a précis of his foreign relations,

Supplies me with matter for future orations. "Magnanimous Monarch! in him I can see"Or fancy I can—some resemblance of me; "In birth almost equal, in manners as bland, "In temper as sweet, and as mild in command; "As grateful, as modest-the blushes you view "Forbid me the flattering theme to pursue ;

"I give but a sketch-you who know me the best "Will fill up the outline and colour the rest.

"Give me then the rank, which the wise and the

bold

"(Such as MURAT and I) are predestined to hold; "And none but a fool or a knave can be jealous "Of one, whom his merit exalts o'er his fellows.

"What though a few blockheads should grudge me the meed,

"With scorn we shall see the deserter secede ;

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My rhet'ric alone will suffice to your aid;

"And of it I may say, as we did to the trade

"Of the prices of beer-(to detain you no longer) "You can't have it cheaper, but shall have it *stronger!”

He said; but no plaudit ensued-not a cheer!

Even CREEVEY+ himself could not yelp out << Hear,

Hear!"

And the judges pronounced-not a voice saying no-
That weak as they were, they had not run so low
In temper, in manners, in candour and birth,
To bow to this blustering "son of the earth;"
A bug-bear composed, like the idol of old,
Of clay and of brass, dizen'd over with gold!

* This answer was made by Mr. Whitbread on a complaint of the increased prices of porter.-E.

†Tho. Creevey, Esq. M. P. for Morpeth. He had been Secretary to the Board of Controul in the Talents' administration.-E.

Terræ filius. A kind of general accuser, who at the Saturnalia of University commencements assumed a licence of arraigning all mankind.

THE CHOICE OF A LEADER.

No. II.

Feb. 11, 1815.

THEN TIERNEY* arose: one might see that an air
Of candour and truth he endeavour'd to wear;
But nature, too strong, gave his efforts the lie,
And the real expression was tricky and sly.

He began―very soberly stroking his chin"Although I should never have wish'd to begin "This kind of discussion, yet since we are in it, "With some plain remarks I'll detain you a minute.

"Let us see what is chiefly required in a Leader? «Not the fire of a bully, the phlegm of a pleader: "Not a blusterer tearing a passion to rags ;'

'

"Not one who at nothing laboriously fags,

George Tierney, Esq., M. P. for Appleby. Treasurer of the Navy under Lord Sidmouth, President of the Board of Controul with All the Talents.E.

"But sound common sense, quiet, pliant, and cool; "An address-which can work with a fact like a tool; "A conscience-not qualmish, nor apt to grow sick; "An art—as plain dealing to pass off a trick: “To these, with a plausible manner and face, "My scheme for a Leader assigns the first place.

"The next proposition I mean to advance "Is this that our chief should be skill'd in finance: “Can one, not expert at financial debate,

"To any extent, clog the wheels of the State? "What hope have we left but to bare to the axe "That root of exertion the Property Tax?

"This done, a wise chief might proceed to assault "The Excise and the Customs, the Land and the

Malt;

"And then it might be to the country revealed "That taxes are needless, and should be repealed; "And that, by disbanding the Army and Fleet, "Economical Statesmen might make both ends meet.