ty urging,
in this instance for one: such portions as I read are nothing like so
stupid as was expected; and, in fact, are not to be called stupid at
all, but fit for their purpose, and moderately intelligible to those who
need them,"--which happily we do not in this place.

Judicious Mr. Viner availed nothing against the Proposed Address; any
more than he would against the Atlantic Tide, coming in unanimous,
under influence of the Moon itself,--as indeed this Address, and the
triumphant Subsidy which was voted in the rear of it, may be said to
have done. [Coxe, iii. 265.] Subsidy of 300,000 pounds to her Hungarian
Majesty; which, with the 200,000 pounds already gone that road, makes
a handsome Half-million for the present Year. The first gush of the
Britannia Fountain,--which flowed like an Amalthea's Horn for seven
years to come; refreshing Austria, and all thirsty Pragmatic Nations, to
defend the Keystone of this Universe. Unluckily every guinea of it went,
at the same time, to encourage Austria in scorning King Friedrich's
offers to it; which perhaps are just offers, thinks Mr. Viner; which
once listened to, Pragmatic Sanction would be safe. [Mr. Viner was of
Pupham, or Pupholm, in Lincolnshire, for which County he sat then, and
for many years before and after,--from about 1713 till 1761, when he
died. A solid, instructed man, say his contemporaries. "He was a friend
of Bolingbroke's, and had a house near Bolingbroke's Battersea one." He
is Great great-grandfather to the present Mr. Viner, and to the Countess
de Grey and Ripon; which is an interesting little fact.]

This Parliament is strong for Pragmatic Sanction, and has high
resentments against Walpole; in both which points the New Parliament,
just getting elected, will rival and surpass it,--especially in the
latter point, that of uprooting Walpole, which the Nation is bent on,
with a singular fury. Pragmatic Sanction like to be ruined; and Walpole
furiously thrown out: what a pair of sorrows for poor George! During his
late Caroline's time, all went peaceably, and that of "governing" was
a mere pleasure; Walpole and Caroline cunningly doing that for him, and
making him believe he was doing it. But now has come the crisis, the
collapse; and his poor Majesty left alone to deal with it!--

No. 2. CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORIAN ON THE PHENOMENON OF WALPOLE IN ENGLAND.

"For above Ten Years, Walpole himself", says my Constitutional Historian
(unpublished), "for a