TOPICS OF THE DAY.
TRUSTEES OF THE NATION.
LIKE Lord KING, we "keep the peace of the Church," and abstain from rousing our countrymen for the coming General Election, in Passion-week. After our brief holyday—that is, in next week's SPECTATOR—we will resume the canvass.
• We shall here correct any unfair impression which may have gone abroad respecting the names that we have already published. We do not mean to assert that in every case the gentleman whom we hold up as worthy of a seat in Parliament, and capable of wisely filling it, would accept of the honour ; much less would we be un- derst7ood, with all our information (which on this subject is not small), to insinuate a wish that any body of voters should take our ward or warrant for the man whom they choose as their repre- sentative. All we aim at is to exhibit the classes and kinds of men that the House of Commons ought to contain—to prove that there is no want of such; inasmuch as we could point out as many as -Would make a whole House—and to furnish, if by chance such a case should occur, any honest band of' constituents with the means of Selecting an honest member, where their immediate neighbourhood • and personal knowledge did not furnish one.
In alluding to Mr. FELLOWES in our last catalogue, we find that we were in error in saying that that gentleman was expelled from Cambridge: he is not of Cambridge, but of Oxford, of which Uni- versity he is still a member. Of course we meant. any -thing rather titan injury to Mr. FELLOWES in stating.ithat the same lot had fallen to him that fell to one of the wisest and best men in Eng- land—JOHN LOCKE.
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