It is
impossible that the system of the thirty can long endure in an
age of inquiry and agitated spirit like the present. Such a
system may suit the balanced interests and the periodical and
alternate command of rival oligarchical connections: but it
can subsist only by the subordination of the sovereign and the
degradation of the multitude; and cannot accord with an age,
whose genius will soon confess that Power and the People are
both divine.
"He can't last ten days," said a whig secretary of the
treasury with a triumphant glance at Mr Taper as they met in
Pall Mall; "You're out for our lives."
"Don't you make too sure for yourselves," rejoined in despair
the dismayed Taper. "It does not follow that because we are
out, that you are in."
"How do you mean?"
"There is such a person as Lord Durham in the world," said Mr
Taper very solemnly.
"Pish," said the secretary.
"You may pish," said Mr Taper, "but if we have a radical
government, as I believe and hope, they will not be able to
get up the steam as they did in -31; and what with church and
corn together, and the Queen Dowager, we may go to the country
with as good a cry as some other persons."
"I will back Melbourne against the field, now," said the
secretary.
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