Again, it is urged, the very violence of such and such writings defeats its own object. If there be any truth in my remarks on the subject of exclusive readers, as far as they are concerned this theory will immediately fall to the ground. This violence is the ambient putrescence which breeds and nourishes the swarm: it forms a fetid atmosphere, from which alone they can inhale the vital food of their existence. This violence, moreover, tends to operate as a premium upon calculating, as opposed to casual misconduct. The intriguing chaFacter, finding that personalities are, generally speaking, synonimous terms. with libels and lies, begins to lose all dread of public exposure. He beholds the good confounded with the bad; and because only liable to stand in the same predicament with one who is foully and falsely aspersed, basely, yet without fear, acts on the anticipation of being coupled with him in the instinctive and instantaBeous exculpation of public opinion.

The licentiousness of the Press of the present day is of so sanguinary a cast, that the contemplation of it is perfectly appalling. The execution it does by means of caricaturing alone is incalculable. Caricatures, in fact, are the most efficient and mischievous kind of libel--they are a gratis libel,---to be met with at the corners of the streets, in the mar ket-place, and on the highway---of a pasigraphic nature, he that cannot read his alphabet can read their slanders, and be self-taught in their creed.

You must be thoroughly satisfied that a radical difference exists between caricaturing a public character for some moral crime, or fashionable folly, and that diabolical prostitution of the pen and pencil which, grouping its objects in murderous array, whets the appetite of the lower orders, for nothing short of blood; which, by shedding it in effigy, spreads the call to shed it in earnest ;

which, in short, by all the soul-harrowing picturings of arbitrary dragoonadings, torturings, and executions on the one hand; and of righteously consummated vengeance on the other; familiarizes the rabble with the cry of "blood for blood;" which thus demonizes their nature, and stimulates to phrenzy a vindictive yearning for retaliation, of which, as long as it is unrealised, they are taught to consider themselves, flagitiously defrauded.

This feature of the licentiousness of the Press is as modern as it is alien to genuine English feelings---it is a hideous excrescence on the licentiousness of old. If the Powers that be slumber and sleep while he that runs can read the accusation in which they are charged with picking the marrow out of the bones of the poor, trampling on the heartstrings of distress, wrenching their last mite from the widow and the fatherless,

butchering the peaceable, and murdering the innocent, then will they shortly be ranked among the powers that have passed away; and in their premature and unnatural dissolution, will be com prised the overthrow of the Constitution, and the ruin of the empire. On this point I speak my conviction in sober sadness---in solemn earnest.

The calm which succeeds a period of agitation is too apt to throw us off our guard. We are culpably remiss in cal culating the mischief accruing: because respited from exerting it, we discover not that our strength is impaired. In consequence, we leave the breach unrepaired---the embankment forced. Since the more violent attacks of the disease are intermittent, we are continually surprised by them, in the midst of what we erroneously suppose re-established health, You will forestall my exemplification of this premise, by reviewing, in

juxta-position, the jubilee of the Coronation with the sacrilegious atrocities of the 14th of August, and the alarmingly revolutionary conduct of the JURIES in inquest upon the mischances of that mournful occasion. It is matter of national thanksgiving, that the sterling integrity of an individual or two of one of these Juries compelled a compromise, which in part redeemed its character, mitigated our alarm, and delivered the country from the immediate proclamation of Mob Law.

A Jury that, instead of impartially sifting the evidence offered, and applying the law to the fact, presume to LEGISLATE for the rabble, that they may at pleasure prevent the ingress to, or egress from, his own parks, pleasure grounds, or other private inclosures of the King, or any of his subjects, is frightfully approximated to a revolutionary tribunal. A matter of favour cannot be a