Since his ultimate object is so great and good, it cannot be his duty to boggle about the means. Get into the house, fairly if you can; but, at all rates, get into the house: Once in the house, suffer neither Heaven nor Hell to exclude you from it!

On the other hand, the motives to petition against a return, are natural and strong. Is a candidate to give up his cause, even after the trouble and expense of an election, as long as he can indulge the smallest hope of prosecuting it to full success? Are voters to suffer the loss of their power and rights, by too tamely yielding to the ascendency of a rival party? Never. Petition, then, against any election of which the issue disappoints your hopes, if there be the smallest probability of your so petitioning with effect. Pursue your petition with spirit and address, to an ultimate trial of the merits of the election. Leave no act untried, no stone unturned, to gain the victory. I do not counsel you to do, as some are said to have done, and frame open conspiracies to be

too easily detected. But raise your outcry loud; muster an host of willing and forward witnesses; endeavour to outwit your opponent, as to the conveniences of time and attendance; scruple not at subornation, if it can be managed with utility and without danger of discovery; spread every report you can devise, to render your opponen's character and cause popularly odious; tamper with the Ce, if this may be done with any prospect of success; be shrewd and liberal in dealing with the short-hand writers; try to bring the whole public to espouse your cause, with an earnestness by which even Pt and its C e may be overawed. Should you, in this ultimate stage, prevail, your triumph will be more glorious, than if you had, with ease, carried you election at the first.

CHAPTER IV.

FIRST EXERTIONS IN THE HOUSE.

ALL preliminary difficulties are now surmounted; and my political disciple, with all the accomplishments I taught him to acquire, is, now, in the house.

It has been my advice to him, not to enter on the side of the administration, if he could possibly avoid it. I shall suppose him, then, to give the first specimen of his talents as a new auxiliary of opposition.

Opposition will not presume to lay those

restraints upon his forwardness and promptitude of speech, to which he would be obliged to submit on the other side. Let him own, then, no restraint; stand boldly forward on every occasion upon which ministry may be outrageously arraigned, or on which their measures and principles may be remarkably dissented from. The wishes of the people are ever the most in favour of him who flies fearlessly in the face of the power to which they are themselves under a necessity to be obedient: and it will, therefore, tend the most essentially to gain to our young politician, a popularity which may be afterwards a rich estate to him, if he shall, at his outset, profess himself the zealous advocate of the doctrines the most adverse to those of the members of the administration, and the most wildly romantic in favour of popular liberty.

Let him evince a determination to press into notice at all adventures. To speak, to speak promptly, to speak even with effrontery, are the grand objects he is to have in

view. If his speech be fluent, his manner unembarrassed, and his voice sonorous-this is enough. Is a proposition moved to harass ministers; let him be the first to support it. Do ministers ask the necessary supplies; let him question the truth of their statements; ridicule the unskilfulness of their ways and means? accuse their profusion and peculation; impeach their incapacity; refuse the supplies they ask; protest, that his country should be left to perish rather than be saved by the compliance with such men, and the adoption of such measures as theirs.

Do they communicate, by his majesty's command, new treaties with foreign powers? let not the young senator hesitate to arraign those treaties, as making a sacrifice of the wealth and honour of the empire, for no good end. This he may do, though not duly acquainted with the relations and the interests to which such treaties have respect: it is enough for him to arraign with spirit: -The public, the other members of the opposition, and even the ministers accused,