of:  they lose, in their feeling of their distress, all memory of those who flattered them in their prosperity.  But merely for the credit of the prediction, nothing could have happened more unluckily for the noble lord’s sanguine expectations of the amendment of the public mind, and the consequent greater security to government, from the examples in France, than what happened in the week after the publication of his hebdomadal system.  I am not sure it was not in the very week one of the most violent and dangerous seditions broke out that we have seen in several years.  This sedition, menacing to the public security, endangering the sacred person of the king, and violating in the most audacious manner the authority of Parliament, surrounded our sovereign with a murderous yell and war-whoop for that peace which the noble lord considers as a cure for all domestic disturbances and dissatisfactions.

So far as to this general cure for popular disorders.  As for government, the two Houses of Parliament, instead of being guided by the speculations of the Fourth Week in October, and throwing up new barriers against the dangerous power of the crown, which the noble lord considered as no unplausible subject of apprehension, the two Houses of Parliament thought fit to pass two acts for the further strengthening of that very government against a most dangerous and wide-spread faction.

Unluckily, too, for this kind of sanguine speculation, on the very first day of the ever-famed “last week of October,” a large, daring, and seditious meeting was publicly held, from which meeting this atrocious attempt against the sovereign publicly originated.

No wonder that the author should tell us that the whole consideration might be varied whilst he was writing those pages.  In one, and that the most material instance, his speculations not only might be, but were at that very time, entirely overset.  Their war-cry for peace with France was the same with that of this gentle author, but in a different note.  His is the gemitus columbae, cooing and wooing fraternity; theirs the funereal screams of birds of night calling for their ill-omened paramours.  But they are both songs of courtship.  These Regicides considered a Regicide peace as a cure for all their evils; and so far as I can find, they showed nothing at all of the timidity which the noble lord apprehends in what they call the just cause of liberty.

However, it seems, that, notwithstanding these awkward appearances with regard to the strength of government, he has still his fears and doubts about our liberties.  To a free people this would be a matter of alarm; but this physician of October has in his shop all sorts of salves for all sorts of sores.  It is curious that they all come from the inexhaustible drug-shop of the Regicide dispensary.  It costs him nothing to excite terror, because he lays it at his pleasure.  He finds a security for this danger to liberty from the wonderful wisdom to be taught to kings, to nobility, and even, to the lowest of the people, by the late transactions.