is hebdomadal system. I
am not sure it was not in the very week one of the most violent and
dangerous seditions broke out that we have seen in several years. This
sedition, menacing to the public security, endangering the sacred person
of the king, and violating in the most audacious manner the authority of
Parliament, surrounded our sovereign with a murderous yell and war-whoop
for that peace which the noble lord considers as a cure for all domestic
disturbances and dissatisfactions.

So far as to this general cure for popular disorders. As for government,
the two Houses of Parliament, instead of being guided by the
speculations of the Fourth Week in October, and throwing up new barriers
against the dangerous power of the crown, which the noble lord
considered as no unplausible subject of apprehension, the two Houses of
Parliament thought fit to pass two acts for the further strengthening of
that very government against a most dangerous and wide-spread faction.

Unluckily, too, for this kind of sanguine speculation, on the very first
day of the ever-famed "last week of October," a large, daring, and
seditious meeting was publicly held, from which meeting this atrocious
attempt against the sovereign publicly originated.

No wonder that the author should tell us that the whole consideration
might be varied _whilst he was writing those pages_. In one, and that
the most material instance, his speculations not only might be, but were
at that very time, entirely overset. Their war-cry for peace with France
was the same with that of this gentle author, but in a different note.
His is the _gemitus columbae_, cooing and wooing fraternity; theirs the
funereal screams of birds of night calling for their ill-omened
paramours. But they are both songs of courtship. These Regicides
considered a Regicide peace as a cure for all their evils; and so far
as I can find, they showed nothing at all of the timidity which the
noble lord apprehends in what they call the just cause of liberty.

However, it seems, that, notwithstanding these awkward appearances with
regard to the strength of government, he has still his fears and doubts
about our liberties. To a free people this would be a matter of alarm;
but this physician of October has in his shop all sorts of salves for
all sorts of sores. It is curious that they all come from the
inexhaustible drug-shop of the Regicide dispensary. It costs him nothing
to excite terror, because he lays i