bruiser, that will finally carry the day.  He must kiss the frost-bitten lips of the green-grocers.  He must smooth the frowzy cheeks of chandlers-shop women.  He must stroke down the infinite belly of a Wapping landlady.  I see your lordship tremble at the very catalogue.  Could you divide yourself into a thousand parts, and every part be ten times more gigantic than the whole, you would shrink into non-entity at the disgustful scene.

In this emergency I can invent only one expedient.  Your lordship I remember had six different services of plate when you were in Ireland, and the duke of P——­ could boast only of three.  You had also five footmen and a scullion boy more than his grace.  By all this magnificence I have been told that you dazzled and enchanted a certain class of the good people of that kingdom.  My lord, you must now improve the popularity you gained.  Import by the very first hoy a competent number of chairmen.  You are not to be told that they are accustomed to put on a gold-lace coat as soon as they arrive upon our shore, and dub themselves fortune-hunters.  It will be easy therefore to pass them here for gentlemen, whose low familiarity shall be construed into the most ravishing condescension.  No men, my lord, can drink better than they.  There is no constitution, but that of an Irish chairman, that can dispense with the bouncing whisky.  They are both brawny and courageous, and must therefore make excellent bruisers.  Their chief talent lies in the art of courtship, and they are by no means nice and squeamish in their stomach for a mistress.  They can also occasionally put off the assumed character of good breeding, and if it be necessary to act over again the celebrated scenes of Balfe and M’Quirk, they would not be found at a loss.  My lord, they seem to have been created for this very purpose, and if you have any hope from a general election, you must derive every benefit from their distinguished merit.  I own however, I am apprehensive for the experiment, and after all would advise your lordship to recur to the very excellent scheme of the common-council men.

There is only one point more which it remains for me to discuss.  I have already taken it for granted, that you are offered your choice of every post that exists in the government of this country.  Here again, if you were to consult friends less knowing than myself, you would be presented with nothing but jarring and discordant opinions.  Some would say, George, take it, and some, George, let it alone.  For my part, my lord, I would advise you to do neither the one nor the other.  Fickleness and instability, your lordship will please to observe, are of the very essence of a real statesman.  Who were the greatest statesmen this country ever had to boast?  They were, my lord, the two Villiers’s, dukes of Buckingham.  Did not the first of these take his young master to the kingdom of Spain, in order to marry the infanta, and then break off the match for no cause at all?  Did he not afterwards involve the nation in a quarrel with the king of France, only because her most christian majesty would not let him go to bed to her?  What was the character of the second duke?  This nobleman,