"even Irishmen outfwear!" in refuting that notorious fiction-a fuckling of the Belfaft fchool, who enforced the Majefty of the Sovereign People," in the very meridian of the French philofophy, and prefently handed his own affociates to the gibbet-the proper leader of the peerless centumvirate-genuine Spartans as ever messed upon black broth. Well and wifely did the Kettle, paired with such a compatriot, thrust in the subject of Irish torture. Aptly and appofitely did he ridicule coalition; for as the Duke of Pd ftill wears his head, in fpite of Marat, the Kettle, capacitated for conference by his new honours, can now, with all the refignation of the elect, difcufs the Colchester election with the President of the Council. The incomparable Gemini can meafure confiftency, and illuftrate each other to perfection. "Alter alteri folatium erit." They are mistaken, who think that the Kettle is capable of nothing beyond counting-house combinations. No man is a better trimist than the Kettle; he would have convened the largest city in England, Westminster, in Palace Yard, to take their cool council upon public affairs, at the very moment that, on a pretence of punishing crimps, an infuriated multitude were deftroying the habitations and property of innoxious citizens:-per contra, in a fhort time after, he voted for depriving the whole people of England of the Habeas Corpus Act, merely becaufe a grand jury found a bill of indictment against Mr. Arthur O'Connor; whom, by the way, the Kettle courted and cultivated, till the fortunes of the former blighted the calculations of all fuch pious patriots as the Kettle. Kettle is indeed a man whom all conditions, colours, and concerns, become and fit, as naturally as Ariftippus himself. In the boundless region of political opinion there exifts not one principle which he has not not adopted; nor a tribe nor a clafs of public men with whom his hofpitable heart has not fraternized. From a Lacedemonian theory of incorruptibleness, to the prudent practice of Downing Street, and the thrift of 'Change Alley-from democracy in the extreme to the extreme of aristocracy-from war to peace, and from peace to war-moderate only in his talents, the honest zeal of his nature has never ftopped fhort of the ultimate limit of the most repugnant fyftem3. A fucceffive votary of all poffible oppofites, his candour has been able to amalgamate the most abfolute contraries; and he has been fervid in devotion to, or bound in brotherhood with, all the rivals who have divided the public interefts during the whole courfe of his career-Pittite, Foxite, Addingtonian-Tory, Whig-Alarmift, Jacobin-Patriot, Courtier High Church, Low Church-the Diffenters he lauded as models of good faith, and prefently accufed them of " deliberate treachery." Infelicitous even when leaft wrong, his deftiny feems to have entrapped him in every direction, and made it impoffible that he should either condemn any man whom he has not applauded, or fupport any fyftem which he has not reprobated. Courted by the fordid, more than endured by the ofcillating, his example makes fellowship a burlesque, and political alliance a hot-bed for infidelity. The decoy of power, and always on the wing, he tempts the great by the fuccefs of the little; and the fortune of the ftragglers furnishes nutriment to the wavering, and infufes afpiration into dulnefs itself. To qualify fingularity, and be identified with his betters, he propagates negotiations only to equalize character and infufe difgrace. Always at work, though his operations are commonly invifible; indefatigable and yet inconftant; good-humoured; well governed; wary; vigilant when moft focial, when moft communicative referved; as ef "SIR, TO DOCTOR BRODUM. D-g -g Street, March 23, 1804. "IMPRESSED with the ftrongeft refpect for your profeffion and character, and confiderably gratified by the recollection that I have the honour to rank as my brother and fellow-labourer in the fame vineyard, one whofe fkill, whofe talents, and whofe practice, place him at the head of our profeffion, I cannot refrain from recommending to your confideration the fymptoms which, for many months paft, have oppreffed me beyond all bearing, and which I cannot but conceive are the fitteft fubjects for your invaluable medicine, the Nervous Cordial, or Botanical Syrup. Quite from the moment, Sir, of my rifing in the morning, I feel a weight and heavinefs in my head, fuch as I can only defcribe, by defiring you to fancy a confiderable portion of lead, or other ponderous fubftance, impofed upon the furface of the cranium, with a dull, uniform, heavy preffure, which nothing relieves; and which, I am quite convinced, no one has felt to the degree that I have done. Your penetration, Sir, will eafily point out to you the dreadful inconvenience of this oppreffive companion, in my prefent fituation, as a Minifter, a husband, and a man; this ominous preponderofity and overbearing depreffion haunt me, cramp my faculties, my energies, and my fpirits, and render me unfit for company, for bufinefs, for enjoyment either of focial, domeftic, or official life. As the day advances, my misfortunes accumulate, and the fymptoms of my melancholy cafe increafe; a tremor comes on, for which I cannot account, but which ufually augments about four o'clock, P. M. Often, Sir, when going down to the Houfe of C, this tremor has come on in fo violent a manner, attended by fwimming in the head, lofs of recollection, and deprivation of faculties, that I have found found myself obliged to have recourfe, upon my arrival at the Houfe, to the affiftance of Mrs. Bennet, the good and kind housekeeper, my very old and dear friend, who has more than once administered to me, with her own hands, fuch aid as her pocket or her cupboard afforded, before I became fit to appear in the Houfe with that gravity of mien and demeanour, for which, doubtlefs, you have heard me fo much extolled. I never fhall forget one time, Sir, when oppreffed as I have defcribed, Mrs. Bennet had kindly administered fome lumps of fugar immerfed in a pungent, but not unpleafing fpirit, contained in a phial within her pocket; I proceeded inftantly to my place, and, refreshed and invigorated, delivered an oration, which my much-valued and estimable friend Mr. I. Hawkins Browne declared to be the most brilliant and exquifite piece of oratory he had ever heard within thofe walls; and in confequence of which, my worthy and refpectably able friend, Sir Alderman Curtis, declared to me, he should lay his head upon his pillow with more content, and with the conviction of being able to obtain a founder fleep, than he had enjoyed for many a debate. I mention this only as one of the many favours I have received at this eftimable old woman's hands, and which I fhall never ceafe to remember with gratitude. But, Sir, to return: I no fooner find myself seated in my place, than an effect arifes which I can hardly defcribe, and defcribing cannot account for. A violent perfpiration breaks forth, and lafts during the whole of the debate; every symptom (even approaching to actual diarrhoea) which characterizes intenfe fear, appears moft ftrongly marked, accompanied by an affection of the mind moft diftreffing and embarraffing. Whilft I am fpeaking, a defire perfectly irrefiftible, involuntary in its commencement, and not to be checked in its progrefs, of perverting the truth of every M 4 every fact I ftate, carries me along with it. In this melancholy ftate I tell the most direct falfehoods; no fact fo plain that I do not miftate it; indeed, Sir, to fo melancholy a pitch have I known these attacks carry me, that I have detected myself in fpeaking, for an hour and a half, without telling one word of truth from the beginning to the end of all I have faid. When I have done, the fit goes off, but returns the next day with the fame fymptoms; when I have often found myself ftating facts in direct contradiction to the facts I had ftated the day before. Only fancy, Sir, my embarraffment, my difficulties, and my diftrefs. Such, Sir, is the ftate of my cafe; which, upon the matureft confideration that I can give it, I can only conceive to proceed from the too great irritability of my nerves, ftretched and kept upon the rack by intenfe application and overwhelming accefs of bufinefs. I know not whether you can relieve me: if you can, I think this a fit fubject for your Nervous Cordial; I beg of you to fend me immediately a large cafe thereof, deducting the value of the ftamps, which I will take proper care fhall not, in this inftance, be charged to you. I have the honour to be, my dear, great, and good Sir, with warm regard and efteem, "Your very faithful humble fervant, "P. S. My poor little boy, the Cl-k of the P-lls, is much and direfully afflicted with the worms; but as I believe you do not deal in the tape bufinefs, I shall apply on that head to another practitioner." COALITION INTELLIGENCE EXTRA, YESTERDAY being a moft convenient day, as a faft ordained by the Chriftian Calendar, a meeting, though rather a flender one, of the motley troop of Coalitionists, |