est, Rome is sunk as if it existed not,
down to the peroration it is all about Cato himself, and his little Whig
party about him.

--"Parturiunt montes,
Nascitur ridiculus mus."

Chief of the _phraseurs_ stand Mr Babington Macaulay and Mr Lalor Shiel,
the peculiarity of whose craft--a profitable craft of late
years--consists in furbishing up old ideas into new and euphonious forms
of speech. Of the one it may be said, that

--"He could not ope
His mouth, but out there flew a trope."

The other more finished leader of the class mystifies you with
metaphysics, half conned and unmastered by himself--more anxious still
to make his points than to please his party; and, of the two, would
rather sink his country than his climax. He is a rhetorician, a dealer
in set phraseology, an ingenious gatherer and polisher of "other men's
stuff." Of the _faiseurs,_ may be repeated what Marshal Marmont, in his
_Voyage en Hongrie, en Transylvanie,_ &c., says of the _faiseurs_ of
Paris--"_Subjugues par le gout et cette manie d'uniformite absolue, qui
est la maladie de l'epoque, et qui resulte de principes abstraits, dont
l'application est presque toujours funeste aux peuples qui l'eprouvent,
ils ignoraient combien il est dans la nature des choses et dans le bien
des nations de modifier l'organization sociale suivant le temps, les
lieux, suivant le plus on moins grana degre de civilization, et d'apres
mille circonstances, qui ne peuvent etre prevues d'avance, mais que le
legislateur capable apprecie au moment ou il est appele a fonder la
societe."_ On the cession of the Illyrian provinces, by Austria, after
the battle of Wagram, the _faiseurs_, or abstract principle men, of
Paris, were prompt with their plans, not for "constitutions"--Bonaparte
had put an end to that branch of their _metier_--but for reorganizing
the laws, administration, &c., of Transylvania _de fond en comble_,
without knowing any thing of the people or country, without having seen
either the one or the other. Marmont, appointed governor of the ceded
provinces, who had studied on the spot the institutions established by
Austria, found these so perfect and well adapted to the genius and
inclination of the population, and the purposes of government, that he
opposed the _faiseurs_ with success, and, by his representations,
induced Bonaparte to confirm and act upon what existed.

This immense agglomeration, this monstrous over-production of the tribes
of