have been privately dear to themselves, have thus acquired, as they think, a right to trample upon the antiquated order of society, and the common interests of humanity, at their pleasure. You may tell me, that a Malay running a muck is a harmless being in comparison with the enterprizes and the turmoil of such political ambition as this. But, pray, was there ever much good done among mankind, without carrying a good deal of arm along with it?

Another County Contest.

There is another species of contest for the superiority in a county-election that requires also, a wild boldness and many sacrifices on the part of the Don Quixote candidate who adventures in it.

It is when a man of high talents, of great experience, considerable in the estimation of the public, and already in important official employment; having, however, in his composition, a dash of the eccentric, the capri

cious, the romantic; forgets plain convenience and utility; and sets an imaginary value, fixes the point of honour for himself, in carrying the election for a county, in which, above all others, there are the strongest prejudices against him, the stiffest thicket of obstacles opposing any probability of his

success.

Such men there have been. Such a man may be at present. Is there one who has been educated to prefer the ingenious and the paradoxical to the true? Who contemns the truism common-places of vulgar experience? Who delights in subtleties and refinements to the entire exclusion of sober logic and of rational induction from his political speculations ? Whose converse has been chiefly with flighty orators and system-mongers? Who possesses talents sufficient to justify him to a certain degree for being con ceitedly in love with even the follies and the weaknesses of his genius? Who can make himself the champion of boxing? The eulogist of bull-baiting? Who can demand

statues of gold to a viler and duller Iscariot Hackney than ever before befouled paper, even in England? Who would provide for the defence of his own country by disarming its fighting men? Who would perfect the discipline of its armies by turning over the soldiers to pensioned idleness, in the early prime of their years? Whose oratory is but a linsey-wolsey texture of subtleties, and any fancies with the coarsest witticisms of vulgar life? Whose elocution is freezing,

while his words and sentiments are hot as the focus of a volcano? Who, instead of studying conciliation, delights to obtrude propositions the most revolting to common sense, in a manner the bluntest, the most direct, the least accommodating to the previous ideas of others, the most offensive to their prejudices? If such a man there be; this, this is he to pique himself upon making such an unnecessary attempt as I have, above, supposed, to force himself upon the choice of some county.

To succeed he must, no doubt, in the

first place, declare, that this object is the very acme of his ambition. This may give the alarm to his adversaries; and teach them, where and how to direct their hostilities. against him with the most certain effect. But, it is frank and fair. It is consonant to that wonted principle of his conduct by which he has always proposed any thing unpopular without glozing it over by the arts of prudence and insinuation Foolhardiness is, many times, very becoming in a great

man!

His next care must be to connect himself with an associate and coadjutor, whose principles and political connexions have been hitherto, the most that can be imagined, at variance with his own. Let the new confederates, all at once, cling together like another Pylades and Orestes. Let all which they, separately held dear before, seem vile in their common estimation, compared to the faith and mutual attachment of their new alliance. This conduct will not fail to satisfy the electors to whom our candidate addresses

himself; that it is their duty to change, even as he has changed; that a similar bosom-friendship should, like an Ignis Fatuus, be lighted up, all at once, be-tween him and them; that he is, in short, possessed of a versatility of affections and of principles, truly worthy of their choice.

They ought, I mean the two new confederates,-next, loudly to boast their resolution and their power. The electors shonld be told, authoritatively, that the Quixotic new candidate has influence to carry his election in spite of any opposition his adversaries are able to make. Even his friends, if any he have among the freeholders, should be taught, that, in voting for him, they do not so much confer a favour as discharge a bounden duty from which they could not be suffered to swerve. This plain boldness will be found commanding and overawing, Or, should it not; it will be at least, quite in character for the hero in whose favour it is employed.

When the moment arrives at which he may