portant uses to which our Noble Orator has applied the word Feature, it becomes necessary to adduce a few arguments in justification of the reasons which have induced him to discard the hitherto admitted interpretation of that word, and to substitute his own novel and more liberal ideas on the subject.

That oratory is like beauty, and that it consists in expression, no one can deny. The best judges admire in a woman a flexibility and a variety, rather than a regularity of features; and as she is the most beautiful woman who expresses most by her features, so he is the greatest of orators who can, on every emergency, have recourse to the same expedient, namely, the expression of features. Now, in this view of the subject, his Lordship is clearly the most beautiful of orators. The features of his language are as versatile as his opinions and conduct, and as pliant as his manners. If changes in politics are profitable, metamorphoses in languages are also delightful. Thus with common men, such as Dr. Johnson, the word Feature conveys the idea of " any lineament or single part of the face"-such as a nose,

an eye, or the forehead. But our orator thinks with Shakespeare, that

"There's language in the eye-the cheek, the lip, nay, The foot speaks;"

for, taking advantage of the latitude thus afforded him, he reverses the argument, and converts Feature into a greater variety of substances animate and inanimate, than are to be found in the catalogue of taxable commodities, or were ever brought together, at our expense, by les hautes Puissances Alliées; when the kilt of the Highlander was seen by the side of the lance of the Bashkeer Cossack. What, for instance, can prove the power of language more than that a feature (i. e. a nose, an eye, or a mouth) should become a bout? and yet our Noble Orator, as we have quoted above, "embarks on a feature" with as much courage and sang-froid as Robinson Crusoe on his raft, or Jason in the Argo.

Personification has ever been admitted to be one of the most powerful of weapons, and as such has been freely used both by Poets and Orators; and what can show greater skill in the use of that favourite figure than an indiscriminate creation

of features for every quality of the mind, and every abstract word in the language? Thus virtue and vice, loyalty and discontent, peace and war, profit and loss, are all not only living personages in the animating eloquence of his Lordship, but they all have features, and features too that perform operations, least to be expected from the "human face divine." As for instance-when his Lordship has made, as others have done before him, Profit an idol, and conferred upon her features: they are suddenly converted by the force of his drastick imagination into a dose of physic, and begin working like Thubarb or jalap; though not precisely on the same subject, lest they should disturb another feature most necessary to all sitting Members, called by his Lordship a " fundamental feature." But they are made to operate on the mind, and he bursts forth in a noble strain of invective against "a feature of profit, which is working in a gentleman's mind.”

What a crowd of interesting and admirable images are brought together within the scope of this short sentence! We have the "os sublime," the human face divine in the word feature-gold

and silver, or rather Bank notes, and interest upon Loans, &c. &c. in the word Profit. We have the twitchings of an active medicine in the phrase Working-a good notion of a Member of the House of Commons in the word Gentleman--and, lastly, a glance of the intellectual qualities of man in the word Mind!!!

After these few observations, we can confidently rely on the support of our readers, when we assert that even the luxuriant imagination of Burke himself never brought together such an assemblage of figures, so simple and so popular, that there is not a phrase which may not be found in the columns of daily advertisements: over which useful publications, however, it possesses an undoubted superiority, from the brilliant exhibition of those strange and unexpected combinations of ideas, which, according to the best authors, generally constitute true wit.

EXTRACT FROM A SADDLER'S

BOOK OF ORDERS.

April 1, 1816.

Pair of Spurs for Mr. VANSITTARt.
Saddle Bags to be repaired for Lord ELDON.
New Saddle complete for the Regent-to be made
easier.

Two Horsewhips for Mr. POLE and Mr. VESEY
FITZGERALD.

Belly Band for Sir Wм. SCOTT.

Martingale for Mr. YORKE.

Crupper for Dr. DUIGENAN.

An old Hood to be thoroughly repaired for Mr. G. ROSE.

CHANGE OF ADMINISTRATION.

April 8, 1816.

THE Regent's Ministers have at length resigned.It was impossible for any one who attended the debates in the House of Commons not to foresee the certainty of such an event taking place sooner