VINDEX has thrown off the ill-fitting mask of Jusars, and
assumed the grotesque and variable but marked and characteristic semblance of Lord BnouGnam ; in which he certainly appears much more at ease. lit his letter to the Duke of WELLINGTON in to-day's Chronicle, the tone and phraseology of the Chancellor are admirably hit off, from the first sentence, where the Duke "illustrious by courtesy" is sneered at, to the concluding paragraph wherein the offer of a COALITION WITH THE WHIGS is hinted at, in terms too plain for mistake. How characteristic of the Chancellor is this insinuating passage !
" If you now stand firm, you avoid a serious mischief to yourself, to the Peers, and to the Church ; and as you emancipate your counsels from the folly and intirtuation of the Keny stns. the Cumberlands, and the Londonderry s, you pave the way for the event which all wise men desire may one day happen, and all patriots wish were less distant than mismanagement has placed it—a Government uniting within its own body the most eminent men of all the parties which deserve, though in diferent degrees the name of Liberal."
Here is a cunning tempter ! But, though the Duke may let the Irish Tithe Bill pass for the sake of the starving clergy, he is not such a simpleton as to be wheedled into a desertion of his party by the offer of playing second fiddle to Lord BnouGnam.
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