Henry V. and Elizabeth, are the most distinguished for honour; particularly Edward and Elizabeth: and their honour consisted in preferring to every thing, the welfare of their people*. How different was the institution of the garter for the black prince and his noble companions, from that for the murderer of the Duke D'Enghein, and the plunderer of Hamburgh and Holland!

Even Machiavel teaches princes the value of honour. Yet this great, this profound statesman, Talleyrand, is ignorant alike of the principles and the practice; and, to sum all up, we will maintain that, though artful and cunning, his only claim to the title of a profound statesman is, that he has not erred quite so widely as his unprincipled master.

* Of the sovereigns of England, not one was so honourable as his present Majesty. He had not the failings of age into which Edward III. fell, nor the youthful vices of Henry V. nor the stain of betraying a relation, and a foreign queen, who had sought her protection, like Elizabeth. In honour and integrity, no public or pri vate man ever surpassed the present king of England; and never did any kingdom stand so high amongst others as England now stands. The troubles and misfortunes of this reign came from external causes; the honourable, manly, and generous manner in which those troubles have been met and resisted, is all owing to the spirit of the monarch, and of the nation he governed.

MARQUIS OF TAVISTOCK.

A YOUNG nobleman of a very amiable disposition; free from most of the vices and frivolities that are prevalent amongst young men of rank. His abilities are said to be good, but he has modesty to keep him back, without necessity to push him on. The cause of opposition, embraced so ardently by the house of Russel, is now in such a state, that there is little temptation to make an effort to support its fallen greatness.

The example of the present Duke of Bedford, the father of the noble marquis, who carries politics to no extreme, may likewise produce an influence on the son; and, indeed, it were to be wished that, in times of difficulty, those noblemen of great rank, fortune, and influence, who will not assist government, would abstain from opposing it.

Our bitter enemy, Buonaparte, has speculated much on the co-operation of opposition; and it is said that he felt more pleasure at seeing the Duke of Bedford at his levee, than all the other English

oppositionists that went over to pay their duty to him during the short peace of Amiens, when he was planning the enslavement of Europe, and the total ruin of the British empire.

RIGHT HON. GEORGE TIERNEY.

MR. TIERNEY is a politician of considerable abilities; but appears to have some incompatibility of temper that makes him inconvenient as a coadjutor; and his peculiar way of acting has more than once rendered his political principles suspected*. In

• Mr. Tierney has been blamed even by his friends whom he disappointed. When he fought Mr. Pitt, he was hailed as the champion of democracy; but, in all his public transactions, something arose to vex and mortify. In his contest for the borough of Southwark, he exposed his opponent, and reproached him with a favour he himself had received, (a share of a loan); a sort of conduct against which all men set their faces. As a military man he was very

matters of finance, Mr. Tierney has a degree of knowledge that might make him useful; and when we wish to be ruled with a rod of iron, we shall wish to see him chancellor of the exchequer: but, thinking as we do, that the suaviter in modo is of great importance, and feeling that our burthens are heavy enough without that unbending regimen we should expect under Mr. Tierney, we heartily wish him well, without having the power of displaying, on a great scale, that rigidity which he showed as a colonel of volunteers.

despotic; as a treasurer of the navy, he pocketed his money, sailed in his state barge,a nd enjoyed his place like any other courtier; and he has been the best snarler in the house of commons ever since.

RIGHT HON. NICHOLAS VANSITTART,

CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCIIEQUER.

THIS gentleman bids fair to be immortalized, like Eratostratus, who burned the temple of Ephesus. He has laid his hand on the sinking fund established by Mr. Pitt, the progress of which has astonished the world, and preserved England. The temple of Ephesus was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world; and, amongst the numerous wonders of the present age, may be well placed an establishment which enables the country to pay off above fifteen millions of debt annually; that is to say, a sum equal to the revenues of the country before it was established, and greater than the free revenue of any kingdom in Europe.

By laying his finger on this sacred institution, Mr. Vansittart has most probably laid the foundation for the future necessity of himself, or his successor in office, laying thereon a heavy hand.