WHO'LL BID MORE?
THE Standard has made an offer, which it is but just the Nation should be acquainted with. If the Anti-Reformers are allowed to conic into power, they will immediately issue twenty millions of Small-notes, and they will give a Moderate Reform Bill. This is very tempting : twenty millions of Small-notes—it would go hard if one did not get a handful in so heavy a shower. . But then, the Ministers say, if they be allowed to stay in (this also is Standard truth), they will give the whole Bill and ten millions of Small-notes. Which, then, will you have, my people—twenty millions and half a Bill, or ten millions and a whole one? We have a third offer ilMake—turn out the Whigs, and make us Minister, and we will give you the Bill and forty millions. Who'll bid more? Going !—Egad, we think we shall knock down the Premiership to ourselves—the Tories won't get in after all.
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