NORTH. Let me go on, sir, I request. He was told that the Association wielded the force, moral and physical, of their country-he heard of crusades against the Protestants of Ulster, and threats of massacre of the Protestants in all other quarters of the island-he saw that his Lord Lieutenants, and his law-officers, did not try to repress these things; and he was told that their inactivity arose from their perfect knowledge that their interference would be useless. Such was the picture of Ireland, presented to him on the first authority. But England TICKLER. NORTH. I was coming to it. The feeling of England is, I know, firmly Protestant, but we must all take the colouring of our ideas from the circles with which we mix. Here, then, he saw the seven men who were selected by himself as the very heads of the Protestant party, firmly united in declaring, that the time for passing this atrocious measure had come-he saw that all his own domestic court were of the same opinion-the House of Commons-faithful representatives of the people! were favourable by an immense majority-the House of Lords went the same way-the Sumners, Copplestones, Ryders, Knoxes, Parkers, and other disgraces of the church, openly supported the Popish claims-many others, Blomfield, for example, doing the same indirectly. Is it quite fair to expect, that the King was to oppose all this weight alone? Sir, you are hard upon a man at his years, fast approaching the term allotted by the Psalmist for human life. TICKLER. North-North-I shall not say a word against the King-what I feel shall die here, in this heart, but it is evident that you are ratting-yes, you, Christopher. NORTH. Nay, do not bend those swarthy brows on me. I protest to Heaven you are as bad as the Quarterly. SHEPHERD. Ha ha ha! Mr North a rotton!!! Who'd believe that? NORTH. Shepherd, though I am happy to see you at my table, I shall never think of regulating my politics by the standard of Mount Benger. No, Tickler, I am not a rat. ODOHERTY. It must be confessed that you are somewhat like, Christopher. Here-you have already to-night defended the Duke of Wellington's conduct, and are now most uproarious in panegyrising the King, for consenting to a measure which you say that both you and he disapproved. NORTH. Morgan, I bear with many things from you. I say again and again, that I was all along against the measure, that I would have voted against it, and spoken against it, as vehemently as I wrote against it, and as I shall continue to write against it. I was only accounting for the conduct of persons, one of whom I idolized, and for the other of whom I feel the true constitutional affection and respect. I own that I cannot divine the motives which induced the Duke to change. ODOHERTY. As for the rubbish about Irish insurrections-that's all my eye. Jack Lawless's march upon Ballybog, where my friend Sam Gray, with forty honest fellows, made him run for his life at the head of his ragamuffins-a cabin burnt in Tipperary-a proctor shot in Killballymurrahoomore-tell these stories to the marines. Žounds, man, that's the everyday pastime of Ireland, -I'd not know the country if it was not going on-it would look quite cold and comfortless. TICKLER. And the Association! A file of grenadiers would have dispersed that beggarly knot-a line of an act of parliament would have extinguished them. Do not tell me, who remember the suppression of the Corresponding Societies, and other Jacobin Clubs, consisting as they did of men of high aspirations and great talents, backed by the living and tremendous force of the whole Jacobin power, the victorious Jacobin power, of Europe. And they were put down in the middle of the most desperate struggle Old England ever was engaged in-And do you tell me about these beggarly Irish loons-headed by boobies-backed by boors, with no intellect at all-nothing but a few noisy tropes-and no rank or wealth but what had been frightened among them-do you tell me that these fellows-whose Foxes and Greys were but the O'Connells and the Shiels-whose Mackintoshes and Geralds were but the Lawlesses and the O'Gorman Mahons—whose foreign strength! was not triumphant France, and trembling monarchy all over the world, but some handfuls of beaten, trampled, crouching, slavish carbonari? Do you tell me of this, sir? No, sir; at all events, the Man of Waterloo could not have believed this. NORTH. Probably not-I have admitted that his conduct is a mystery to me up to this hour. But if I were to make a guess, I confess I should rather incline to the theory of those, who are not few, nor unweighty neither, though they don't put out their views in the newspapers, who believe that Prince Lieven could give a more satisfactory solution of this knot than any other man now in England, the Duke alone excepted. For really, except the Duke, and probably Sir George Murray, I don't suppose the members of the rat-cabinet ever knew why they were ratting-I mean the causa causans-They ratted—I mean Peel, Bathurst, and so forth-merely to keep their places-I suppose you will excuse any details as to the Chancellor's case. ODOHERTY. My friends in the Standard suggest that the Duke has the design of making himself Dictator, and that this measure was carried with that view. NORTH. I think he would have had a better chance of obtaining such an end, by putting himself at the head of the Protestant interest. TICKLER. No-the Protestants were Tory, and therefore loyal-no tools for a Cromwell. I have seen a little pamphlet addressed to the King, in which a very plausible case was made out. SHEPHERD. Is there no an auld prophecy aboot it? NORTH. Yes, on the tomb of Arthur at Tintagel "HIC JACET ARTHURUS, REX QUONDAM REXQUE FUTURUS;" but we are not come to that yet. But it is evident, at all events, that he is King of the Ministry. ODOHERTY. The Ministry!-the slaves!-I'd like to see them budge without his orders. (Sings.) When the heart of a rat is oppress'd with cares, Pulls all their noses and clouts their ears. Places and wages his hands disclose, But his rough toe is more harsh than those- And quaking, Or else sink, like Husky, to black repose. And is it not as it ought to be? By Jupiter and all the gods, nothing would give me more delight than to see the whole of the servum pecus—the ragabash rascals, who sham being ministers-tied up, some fine morning, in front of the Horse Guards and whipt. TICKLER. I never asked for a place under Government yet-and I have no love for the present Government, that I should break my rule; but if I thought there was any chance of that consummation, I should send in a most humble petition for the post of Provost Marshal. TICKLER. There is no doubt we have now a united Government. I should like to see them disunite! Imagine Peel taking a view of the subject, unfortunately, but most conscientiously, different from that of his Noble Friend-his illustrious friend at the head of his Majesty's Government. Imagine the Right Hon. John Singleton Baron Lyndhurst having the ill luck to differ in opinion from the Most Noble Arthur by royal permission. ODOHERTY (sings.) In England rules King Arthur, Come, gentlemen, there's your chorus, sing on. TICKLER (sings.) King George of Windsor Castle, Attend unto thy Tickler, And he the truth will shew. The crown, sir, and the sceptre, Up, royal heart of Brunswick, Fills many a breast with wo. 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