candals, Law of Nature, or whatever it may be;
and abate the same, at their peril.

"To the now reader there is something almost pathetic in these solemn
indignations, and high resolves to have Purity of Parliament
and thorough Administrative Reform, in spite of Nature and the
Constitutional Stars;--and nothing I have met with, not even the
Prussian Dryasdust, is so unsufferably wearisome, or can pretend to
equal in depth of dull inanity, to ingenuous living readers, our poor
English Dryasdust's interminable, often-repeated Narratives, volume
after volume, of the debatings and colleaguings, the tossings and
tumults, fruitless and endless, in Nation and National Palaver, which
ensued thereupon. Walpole (in about a year hence), [February 13th (2d),
1742, quitting the House after bad usage there, said he would never
enter it again; nor did: February 22d, resigned in favor of Pulteney and
Company (Tindal, xx. 530; Thackeray, i. 45).] though he struck to the
ground like a rhinoceros, was got rolled out. And a Successor, and
series of Successors, in the bright brand-new state, was got rolled
in; with immense shouting from mankind:--but up to this date we have
no reason to believe that the Laws of Nature were got abrogated on
that occasion, or that the constitutional stars have much altered their
courses since."

That Walpole will probably be lost, goes much home to the Royal bosom,
in these troublous Spring months of 1741, as it has done and will do.
And here, emerging from the Spanish Main just now, is a second sorrow,
which might quite transfix the Royal bosom, and drive Majesty itself
to despair; awakening such insoluble questions,--furnishing such proof,
that Walpole and a good few other persons (persons, and also things, and
ideas and practices, deep-rooted in the Country) stand much in need of
being lost, if England is to go a good road!

The Spanish War being of moment to us here, we will let our
Constitutional Historian explain, in his own dialect, How it was so
vital to England; and shall even subjoin what he gives as History of it,
such being so admirably succinct, for one quality.

No. 3. OF THE SPANISH WAR, OR THE JENKINS'S-EAR QUESTION.

"There was real cause for a War with Spain. It is one of the few cases,
this, of a war from necessity. Spain, by Decree of the Pope,--some Pope
long ago, whose name we will not remember, in solemn Conclave, drawing
accurately 'his Meridian Line,' on I know not what Tel