pursuits. That, nature and example, will fully atchieve. Connive at the irregularities into which they lead; direct his tutors in the University to do the same; do not withhold your money from him, with too niggardly a hand; have a care merely, that he become not absolutely the tippling slave of drunkenness, the mere plucked pigeon of gambling, or the victim of venereal disease. It is not vice, but the debasing, unmanning, killing excesses of vice, that you have to dread for him.

Gaming.

Nothing is indeed, more requisite to a young man of so high a destination, than that he early acquire due skill in all the games of chance. That he may become of leading political consequence among noblemen and gentlemen, he will have to pass much of his time on the race-ground, and at the gaming-table. His political talents will be estimated by the shrewdness which he

discovers in betting, and the skill with which he shuffles and plays his cards. Not to speak of the pecuniary ruin that must, in such circumstances, quickly overtake an unskilful gamester; he will be thought a man of no talents, if he cannot excel those in their own favourite pursuits whom he aspires to lead in politics. Let nothing, then, hinder you from impressing upon his mind the necessity of the thorough study of Hoyle. A grandmother or a maiden-aunt may give him much seasonable instruction in cardplaying, when he pays his visits at home, between terms. You must yourself accustom him to the bold riding of the chace, and initiate him upon the turf. It avails, however, little or nothing, that you acquaint him simply with card-playing and horse-racing, if you instruct him not in all the finesse and the artifices of these pursuits. The doubtful artifices of gaming are nearly allied to all that is most masterly in political intrigue. He who knows to hedge a bet with due skill, will casily excel in the game of double and

treble negotiations. The knowing one on the turf will, the most readily, become knowing in the nice arts and minute distinctions by which the matches in St. S -'s Chapel, or on the hustings in Covent Garden will fall to be decided. I had almost said, that he who knows to cog a die, to hide a card seasonably, to bribe a groom to make the horse he rides disappoint those who have taken the long odds, will be fittest person for all the subtle arts of diplomatic intrigue. We know, that strait-laced, austere morality, is not, in the present state of this world's affairs, to be too punctiliously adhered to, whether in gaming or in politics. And of such great indispensible businesses in life, it cannot but be highly proper to make the one subservient to the improvement of the mind for the practice of the other.

Newspapers.

I had almost forgotton one thing of signal importance in our young M. P.'s education.

He should, now, begin to receive some formal lessons in parliamentary politics. For these I can refer him to no better school, than that to which he was sent for wit. The cistern has two pipes, out of the one of which it pours politics, while wit spouts out at the other. The Morning Newspapers of the metropolis, in their reports of the debates in parliament, in their solemn political paragraphs, and especially in those which are called their leading articles, contain all that it is, in the least necessary, for our young Hopeful to study, in order to render himself a consummate proficient in the whole art and mystery of domestic and even foreign politics. "They are the only school in which all our great orators and statesmen now take their degrees. They are the only reading for which a member of parliament and man of *fashion can well be supposed to have leisure. The reports of the debates may be regarded as the productions-jointly of the members to whom the speeches are respestively attributed, and the reporters, a set of journey

men printers, taylors, cabinet-makers, and attorney's clerks, the most eminently qualified to repeat, to point, to amplify, to inform the eloquence of parliamentary orators. All matters of public business, and all the subjects of legislative discussion, are, in those reports, unfolded, with a natural confusion of thoughts and language the most unequivocal proof of the fidelity of the reporter. They present no examples of elegant, correct, or glowing phraseology, to reduce the student to despair. A Cicero, and a Demosthenes display specimens of eloquence too consummately perfect for the actual practice of modern life and business: the reports of our debates in parliament, give such wisdom as a Sancho Panza might utter, in such composition as a letter-writing parishclerk might indite. They possess, too, that interesting perfection to rush, always, into the middle of things. They are the genuine, unvarnished pictures of the minds of the speakers. They, with the other contents of our public papers, have