gi'un that-that's enough."-Such prudent housekeeping would soon rid any palace of such useless and destructive vermin. If a lopping were now to be made of all useless places and pensions, and such as ought to remain were curtailed, according to James's Scotch economy--"gi 'un that--that's enough"-how many hundreds of those moles would be unsheltered, who at present riot on the public vitals, and are making such quick work with them "As th' earth is easiest undermin'd By vermin impotent and blind." HUDIBRAS. Enough of this wholesale domestic warfare (ten thousand times more to be deprecated than any foreign one, although against the world in arms) has already been brought to light, to sicken the imagination. Were the whole to be brought to light! That would be a tale indeed to "harrow up the soul."Perhaps some honest man, as bold as his cause is just, may continue, or take up the task, already so well begun, of cleansing the Augæan Stable. Such a man as will disdain the stage-shifting, scene-changing, trap-door rising and sinking of a place-man, and patriot alternately, as occasion serves, or necessity compels, and will do his duty towards the public, in spite of the taunts or insinuations of such a serpent, although conscious that is too often the fate of a man - lab'ring to be good His honesty's for treason understood: While some false flatt'ring minion of the court If a man who strives to arrest the country on the brink of ruin is to be termed Jacobin, and those who lend a hand to drag the Cerberus sickening at the day, to public view, an unprincipled association, by a man without principle, or, to speak more properly, of the very worst principle that the finger of honesty can point at, it must be acknowledged to be a task Herculean, and that the public gratitude ought to equal the task. But of this hereafter. Let us make as quick work with the courtier tribe, as they are making with the constitution. It is little consolation to a ruined nation that court sycophants cannot make kings ridiculous without making of themselves, at the same time, things such as God never created, nor intended to create-things at which the lowest degradation of mortality sncers. One of these things is very seldom seen out of its court burrow, lest, in its absence, some of its friends should cut its throat; but when it ventures abroad, its march resembles that of a crab, from its continued shuffling about, to avoid having its back towards royalty, which would be an unpardonable offence; and its sole business is to pick up falsehoods, scandals, or, at leisure, to invent them, to tickle the royal ear, or answer some private end. The most restive colt that ever was, never suffered half so much in the manége, as one of those things at its first court-breaking-in: Head, eyes, tongue, arms, legs, front, back, and sides, all move by clockwork; but take a view of that ridiculous scene called a court ball. At the upper end of the ball-room, under a canopy of state, sit the king and queen; and within a railing, erected for that purpose, forming a kind of oblong, stand all the nobility of a certain degree, as peers, peeresses, and their eldest sons and daughters. The secondary ranks, or the inferior nobility, placemen, their wives, and all such persons as, by their alliances or connexions, claim the title of somebodies, (that is the cant word for people of fashion, as that for the public is nobodies) are enclosed in like manner from the third rank, or royal tradesmen, with their wives, &c. tout ensemble not much unlike, in appearance, to a Smithfield cattlepen. The ball opens with minuets, the parties, who have announced their wish to exhibit themselves, being called out according to the lord chamberlain's list. Then you behold every thing but Lord Chesterfield's graces. The narrow limits prescribed to the performers ;-the vast extent of the ladies' hoops, (which make them resemble Astley's ponyraces or boys with their lower parts enclosed in wicker baskets, and covered with horsecloths, to appear like ponies) together with the prohibition of turning their backs on royalty, which obliges them to spoil the figure, by dancing up into corners in front of majesty, instead of the proper graceful turning and crossings;-all these impediments create a scene laughable enough, although etiquette will not allow a laugh, nor even a grin, unless a smile appear on one of the royal faces, when it is expected to go round the company, like bumper toasts among convivials, although no one knows the cause of it. After two hours passed in this tedious and monotonous (pardon the boldness of the figure) shuffling and grinning, the royal pair retire, and with them all restraint. The country dances then begin, and, at a certain time, the sideboard opens, when a general bustle and scramble ensue, to catch a morsel. To add to the confusion, the perquisite-mongers, dreading their courtier jaws, blow out the |