TORY DREAMERS AND INSURRECTIONISTS.

" Fleetere si treitreo superos, Aeheronta movebo."

"As for the Morning Post. it corn Straight to the mark, and reckons up all the forces which are at the disposition of the : the Army. Marine. Yeomanry, a:e. are all for the gad eau., ; to a .worth 50.1.*) emalry, of silk!) a portion is ready mounted tutel otinippvd, aro pr.,11;:r,.1 to al At the tiro, sigma and assert the ),rate::. sinus of the Tory Lords. • Now.' au!,h; the Mm.ning Port, • let the Whigs and the Rteei•

vas attempt a colli.rhat (issom, as twy phew: (cid quickly hare entughq

" It must not be supposed that t his inlivcaat i0I1 is merely the ebullition of a hot- headed journalist (bontade Won joarnal exane); the 'fogies in Franco have been say. ing these two mouths past that the Crown cannot triumph over the embarrassments of its position. except by favour of a dist ortiancv (ineute): and that it most lore a lam out" (qu'illM run use journee.)-Coutikr Fraacuis, Aug 25.

PARIS, 40th August 1845. THE poet VIRGIL, though be appears to have shut himself up with the Muse in a cell, and studied mankind in HOMER and not in the Forum, was still a Roman, and could not escape knowing the nature and mqvements of impotent and vindictive factions. In the single character of the battled and haughty wife of Jove, he has summed up the most striking features of a proud aristocracy sulking and spitting venom under the sense of defeat and humiliation. This amiable compound of the shrew and the termagant grafted on the queen ; this Tory goddess—type and personification of English Toryism—dull, proud, and vindictive— discharges the gall with which she is bursting, in an ebullition precisely the same in tone, though certainly very different from it in language, as that in which the spirit of the Tory Lords has spoken, it appears, by the pen of their stipendiary. She is on her return from Argos, her congenial abode; and travelling post through the air, descries from afar the Trojan fleet laid safely up in the Tiber, and the people busy as bees, throwing up ramparts to protect the extempore huts of Troja Nova. She shakes her bead, and declaims like another Lord LONDONDERRY returning, after the installation. of the Whigs in office, from St. Petersburg, his congenial abode, and finding Reform already intrenehed in

the head-quarters.

" (lima si mea numina non aunt

Magna satis; duhitem hand equidem implorare quod asquam est.

Flectere si nequeo superus, Aeberonta movebo.

Non dabitur regnis, esto, prohibere Latina, Algae imsuota menet fatis Labia atm.*: At trultere, atque mores taniis Heel addere rebus : At Hut amburum populos exseindere regime.

Bac gener atque socer coiant mercede suorum.

Sanguine Trojano et Rutulo dot:there, Virgo; Et Bellona manet te pronuba."—.EN. vii. 310-319.

It requires but the change of two or three words to Torify this boutade and adapt it to the use of the termagant Junonian faction, with which the Reformers have the happiness to live as SOCRATES with his XANTI PPE ; to whose pot-de-chambre and vollies of abuse the mills sapientia of the sage used to reply only by shaking the drops (not of dew) from his head, and remarking that thunder naturally followed rain.

" If my own strength suffice not, shall I doubt To invoke what powers soe'er? I cannot bind The gods above-1'11 stir up Acheron.

Granted I may not bar the Whigs from place, And fast as fate Reform is linked to them, Their wedded bride; still to protract is mine, And to the mighty movement to oppose What obstacles I can : mine too it is With war each people to exterminate.

At such a price, and at the people's cost, Let bride and bridegroom meet; thy dowry, maid, Shall English blood and Irish liquidate ; Bellona be thy bridemaid, Miss Reform!"

It was always expected that the termagant faction would die hard, evoke Acheron, conjure up Alecto, and try a rising rather than submit to their destiny : the dangerous reptile, though maimed, ceases not to quiver and swell and threaten, till it pro- vokes the blow which is to bruise its head and give it its quietus. The thing appears just now to be coiling itself up for this con- summation ; and though it were more congenial to the temper of British Reform to let the dispossessed faction starve on its own bravado and die of inanition, yet as it cries out so loudly fore briefer decision, and pokes its head so invitingly in the way, it would be cruel to withhold from it that which it desires, which it provokes, and which it merits.

The muster of forces and interests, supposed by the sanguine Tory imagination to be arrayed on the side 'of abuses,comprehends all the elements of political strength but one, without winch all the rest are chaff for the wind to dissipate. King, Lords, Army, Navy, Magistrates, Church, and Universities— (the sting of the reptile is not in its tail—the tail at least is harmless)—every thing but the People. The Tories are in possession of all the instru- ments of government, but not of that for which government exists, which employs the instruments, and sometimes breaks them. What is the inference? -Either this-Tory muster, like a Spanish army of 16e9, is big and warlike only on paper; or the instruments

of government are utterly perverted from their Iggitimate ends ; for it is clear that they cannot belong both to the Tories and the People. A faction dispossessed of power, and fretting now five years

opposition, claims the Killa!—a use of the Sovereign's nareefur factious purposes tending infinitely more to the dilapidation of the Throne than the most sweeping measures of Reform. sVoscitur ex Boa° : a prince anxious to be on good terms with Ins people, cannot too carefully eschew so equivocal a conne.sron —a king cannot reign at once in the heart: of Tories And of a nation. Evers, argument or appearance these men addese to prove that the King is with them, inflicts a blow on the Throne: therefore sane Monureliv-men pray with Humerieev BLUNT, iu the last Spec- tator, "Save us from our friends !"

The faction claims the Lords,—esto greater or less, the Re- formers can afford them the amount of their claim. Only there is a residue of the House, righteous enough to save even Sodom from destruction, which does not belong to the faction. This re- sidue, it is believed, could buy up the rest, pensions and all : as for worth and public spirit, it is a given quantity to 0. Yet even the Tory Lords discover symptoms of a capacity to acquire a dark- ling wisdom in their generation. The Reform Bill they would not hear of, and rejected flatly ; the Municipal Reform is abomi- nable in principle, and yet they submit to deal with it in detail, and lick the abortion in a shape more to their lordly liking.

The Tories claim the Army, as they claimed it in 1833; yet the Army saved not their Borough rottenness, neither will it save their Municipal and Church rottenness from the Reformers scalping- knife. What Tory demonstrations the Army has since made, it is not easy to say • unless the occasional drawing of a bayonet on

a vender of small-beer, and the breeding of a few. Orange Lodges in its ranks, be what countenances just now the temerity of the faction, and renders it, more suo, uproariously valorous, like a beaten drum.

The Navy has this of good, that it does its duty to the nation, without being in any body's way, and is as inoffensive on shore as

a fish out of water. As well as the Army, it has only a moral influence, in so far as it comprehends men of intelligence, gene- rosity, and liberality. The Tories are here reckoning without their host; for it is not by spirits of this stamp that Toryism is har- boured anno Domini 1835.

Of the Magistrates, so many are doubtless, in the fullest sense of the words, Tories, as exercise irresponsible power and have got the fingering of the public purse. On a small scale, they arc enacting the part which the Tories played so many years on a great one; and which " his Majesty's servants," as the provin- cial play-bills have it, are so rabidly eager to perform a second time " for the benefit " of the nation. They are painfully alive to the anomaly of a corrupt Magistracy extant without a gagging Government and a corrupt Parliament to protect it • and they are anxious to do away this political solecism, by adding what is necessary for the completion of the system. The Reformers are equally sensible of the contradiction between the parts of Govern- ment as now existing ; but they propose an operation which is the reverse of the Tory one, and removes what the latter leaves.

The appeal to the Yeomanry is curious, as it shows in what direction Toryism is travelling in thought, and where it is looking for precedents. The Reformers, during five arduous years, have been meriting the esteem of both worlds by the sobriety and measure even of their most animated movements; and here is a brutal faction already gorging itself with dreams of massacre, and feeding on reminiscences of Manchester ! But, as bath been said of the Universities, the Tories serve, as a log in water, to mark the ebb and flow of things. At present it is low tide, and the log stands " bare and naked, trembling at itself," as says King Richard. The Yeomanry are a part, and in 1831-2 were a very active part, of the Reforming People. Does the faction hope in 1835 to find Englishmen, however " mounted and equipped, be- sotted enough to do their bloody work on the heads of their countrymen, and sabre the eaters of their corn, whose industry keeps up its price, for the benefit of grinding landlords ? "Ab! bah! cornme disent les centres." However, the Tory assumption discovers the creature's native propensity to bite, and shows how long a wicked habit will survive the loss of the venomed tooth.

It wasnot to be expected that anybody but men as blind to the past as they are to the present, would, on a calculation of political forces, add the Universities to the account, as an item of power. His- tory might make a man's heart sank within him, on reflecting that be had Oxford and Cambridge on his side; for in those still re- treats has expired every principle and party which the march of the English People, since the first Reformation, has left in its rear. There Jacobitism lingered long after it was fairly defunct everywhere else; and theree‘Tor) ism is now rallying fast;—proof that the malady' s fast retreating from the other members of the body politic. Yet, as in the Lords, so in the Universities, or at least in one of them, there is a righteous minority, which com- prehends all that is not stultified by port and dull routine, and which is generous enough to reason from love of man, and not from sordid love of pelf. As, however, in these venerable precincts is found the totality of the ingenuous aspirants to two rectories and a third in commendam, as well as many other adolescents, des- tined to thrive, in some shape or other, at the expense of th!a#014IntiaitY: it is no wonder that the young galleries of the Theatre and Senate-house should so loudly call out for a transfer of the public purse into the hands of a party that understands so excellently well the art of fatting a few proteges at the expense of the many.

King, Lords, Army, Navy, Magistrates, University, and Par- liament to boot, were, in the month of June 1789, as unanimously zealous in France for the conservation of whatever prerogatives they were severally in possession of, as the Tories can desire to be at this day. In defence of all that was "dear to them," they ven- tured both person and property, with a hardihood and a frank-

ness of which the English Tories are utterly incapable. They were, furthermore, in a manner adosses on the Holy Alliance ;

and the Austrian and Prussian bayonets, within a three days

march of Paris, was an argument much more cogent and convin- cing than the Tory muster of mounted Yeomanry. Yet, in two

or three brief years, men said, " Where are they ?" Dead or in exile, and the survivors destitute, in beggary, teaching the French language or the French art of dancing. Such in two or three brief years was the position of that Conservative phalanx, which pulled the house about their ears, in clinging to their profitable abuses. It may be consoling to the Tory gentlemen to know, that the English language is grown popular in France, and that teachers of that noble tongue, properly qualified, are sure of find- ing employment there.

But they are, what the French Tories were not, careful of their skins, and instinctively sensible of approaching danger. The Holy Alliance, too, is out at their backs, to do the office of the

great Devil and urge them on to their ruin. The sea rolling round one is a comjbrlable thing. We have our Tories snug at home, as in 1688 and in 1832; and it is a yet further cry to Petersburg than to Paris. Should they be squeezed into a louder exclamation than they have yet uttered, all that their Mus- covite Protector can do, will be to withdraw his Ambassador,— which is what they call a good loss.

In fine, the challenge of the Post would be insufferably trucu- lent, if it were not immeasurably silly in the actual state of the country, which has enjoyed a profound calm, dimpled Duly by tiny Tory agitations, ever since the retreat of the Tories from power. It is curious as an indication of what the Tories would do if they could. If the muster of Yeomanry be aught but the bugbear of a Tory imagination after dinner, all that can be said is, that the people of the great towns should instantly enrol themselves into a Civic Guard, and put the Tory Yeomen metal to the proof. The Courrier Francais argues, that it is not the boutade of' a journaliste exalte, but really an indication of the prevailing spirit of the party, from the effervescence that has for some time reigned among the Paris Tories. This is a description of men that merit to figure on the Post's muster-roll. Your Paris Tory is perhaps the most mechant of his tribe. He brings the insolence, egoisme, and prejudice, which characterize the Tory in every soil ; and he contracts ideas, which, though not inconsistent with Toryism, are foreign to the habits and feelings of Englishmen. He lives in a perpetual CASTLEREAGH regime, composed of espionage, violence, Alachiavelism, and brutality. He sees the Police getting up emeutes for the Government, which pays it out of the public purse; and the Government profiting by the emeutes so got up, to wring from the people successively every advantage they pos- sess. Hence, no longer admonished by the proximity of sober English heads and good English hearts, his imagination flies off into an ecstatic vision of the same moyens de gouvernernent doc- trinaires employed for the support of abuses in England and Ire- land ; and he exclaims, like a true disciple of the Doctrine, "II lui faut one journee!" Let not the good Courrier (who, by the by, is as sound a Reformer as can be found in France or England either) be uneasy. It is a Paris-bred idea, got by the late FIESCRI laws of the French Government; and five weeks residence in London will more than suffice to eradicate the unnational and un- natural conception. The English provoked into an entente by the tools of Toryism! The Reformed Commons frightened into coer- cive laws by a row in the streets, or a shot from a garret-window ! —" sEgri somnia!" The faction deserves a lesson pour rap- prendre d vivre. It is not yet alive to the propriety of submitting to necessities, of which the most imperious is that it do itself keep the peace. If it will persist in these and the like frantic distortions, it must look to be bound over, in terms more strict than have hitherto been employed; though the Reformers are notoriously bons. In fact, they are of their age and their country. They are all the Englishmen of 1835, who live on their own industry, or on what their industry has provided. They take out of no man s purse; and they desire, in return, that no man should take out of theirs. They have neither pensions, sinecures, places, pluralities, nor any sort of plunder to defend. They are honest men, in short ; and, like holiest men, are moderate and humane, unless when unrea- sonably provoked. Their grave, pacific, and regular march during the last five years, under the provocation of a headstrong faction, and across numberless perplexities, embarrassments, and intrigues of the enemy, such as in other nations have stung the people into Madness, and led to the perpetration of abominable cruelties, has merited for England a return of the prestige which attended the English name on the Continent during the earlier part of last century ; and the prestige promises this time to be datable. They i are animated and pervaded by the great spirit which spoke in the following terms by the pen of the apostle DUMONT. " The personal and anti-social [Tory] passions are the great enemies of the public peace. These passions, given us by nature, are indis- pensably necessary for the existence and preservation of individuals; but the evil to be apprehended, is not a deficiency in this respect, but an excess. Were men to give themselves up to them without restraint, they ...veld only plague and torture one another. The great art of the legislator is to keep them in bounds, and to dispose individuals to so- ,entice their passions mutually to each other. But the constant object of this declaration, Republican ebullition of 1795; for men's pas- sions are the same in all parties when placed in a similarly unhappy position.) was only to fortify what was already too strong, and break the bends by which it was kept in check ; to say to the personal pas- sions, all is your property—the world is your prey ; and to the anti- social passions, look at every thing with distrust—the whole world is your enemy."

Of this benevolent morsel of Benthamism, the Tories will do well to meditate the part which inculcates the necessity of con- trolling the passions—the first lesson imposed on little children ; and the Reformers to reflect on that which reminds them that the .same passions were given them by a wise and gracious Provi- dence for their own defence against violence.