y to become active in
conferring rewards and honours on the persons who have been the
instruments of their disgrace; and, after having first vilified them with
the higher orders for suffering the laws to sleep over the licentiousness
of the populace, they drive them (in order to make amends for their
former inactivity) to some act of atrocious violence, which renders them
completely abhorred by the people. They who remember the riots which
attended the Middlesex Election; the opening of the present Parliament;
and the transactions relative to Saint George's Fields, will not be at a
loss for an application of these remarks.

That this body may be enabled to compass all the ends of its institution,
its members are scarcely ever to aim at the high and responsible offices
of the State. They are distributed with art and judgment through all the
secondary, but efficient, departments of office, and through the
households of all the branches of the Royal Family: so as on one hand to
occupy all the avenues to the Throne; and on the other to forward or
frustrate the execution of any measure, according to their own interests.
For with the credit and support which they are known to have, though for
the greater part in places which are only a genteel excuse for salary,
they possess all the influence of the highest posts; and they dictate
publicly in almost everything, even with a parade of superiority.
Whenever they dissent (as it often happens) from their nominal leaders,
the trained part of the Senate, instinctively in the secret, is sure to
follow them; provided the leaders, sensible of their situation, do not of
themselves recede in time from their most declared opinions. This latter
is generally the case. It will not be conceivable to any one who has not
seen it, what pleasure is taken by the Cabal in rendering these heads of
office thoroughly contemptible and ridiculous. And when they are become
so, they have then the best chance, for being well supported.

The members of the Court faction are fully indemnified for not holding
places on the slippery heights of the kingdom, not only by the lead in
all affairs, but also by the perfect security in which they enjoy less
conspicuous, but very advantageous, situations. Their places are, in
express legal tenure, or in effect, all of them for life. Whilst the
first and most respectable persons in the kingdom are tossed about like
tennis balls, the sport of a blind and insolent