THE TAMWORTII TIlly3IPETF.11. TO TOE F.DITOR OF TIIE SPECTATOR.
Sir NVIIen did your trumpeter die?" is one of the pithy sayings of the common people which has survived many more brilliant apophthegms and more caustic rept oofs, flow far it is applicable to the Orator of Talowinth, those who have rend his last address to the electors of that discriminative borough, and remember his recent self laudatory effusions at Merchant Tailors and nar- row, have had ample opportunities of determining. l'he trumpeter on each occasion was Sir Itoniorr Ps en.; and however loud or however deep was the blast, the theme was still Sir Ronnieiu His principles, his policy, his motives— u hat lie did do, and what he meant to do—were still " the one unchanging theme;" his instrument, like MICA NI a I's, had but one string, and that twanged to sey'only. //is trumpeter can never die, as long as the subject on which the trumpet loves to swell its sonorous flourishes exists: in plainer lan- guage, Sir Itorwar will never cease to blow his own trumpet as long as his lungs continue to do their duty. One of the self. approving topics which Sir Romorr has adorned with his rhetoric, is the surrender of his office; which lie takes infinite credit to himself that he resigned when he found "that he could not conduct the affairs of the country consistently with the acknowledged principles of the constitution Sheer twaddle! how very wide the diners out at Tamworth must have opened murmur between Iris teeth," Et to, Bride !"—tbis Lutist IllakO GOCLIICRN'S cheek turn pale with the bitterness of the conceit, and IlmiacE Twrss's burn with a scarlet feverish blush of honest indignation ! Sir Itoinair may, if he does not do so already, bug himself upon the conviction, that if one thing more than another hastened his speedy and mortifying exit from office, it was his colleagues. If be could have gained the support of another class of men, not distinguished " by the honour and integrity " be so facetiously concedes to his colleagues, he might and would have had a longer trial allowed him. Ile can point to a few mists in the desert of his political career—some green spots in the mid expanse—some few glimpses of a better and brighter destiny ; but what have they to offer on which the national faith can cling to as assurance of their " honour and integrity ?" Sir Roonier has had by this time ample oppor- tunity himself of answering the question. A word on the virtuous indignation and sarcastic reproach which the mag- nanimous statesman so consistently bestows on the coalition between the present Government and the Irish Members. W hen 3lh.s Jones declines to receive the visits of the Tomkinses, and becomes thick with the lligginbottoms, as a matter of course the 'foinkinaes say all the ill natured things they can think of, not only against the Iligginhottouis, but also of poor 3liss JorleS IOW is at once act down as " something 110 better than she ought to be." So does Sir Roamer, failing to secure the good offices of " the Tail," very naturally sneer at those the Tail so fondly wag: upon, and bless his own stars that he was not reduced to that ceirelaify. No one thinks the worse of O'CONNELL, although he very 3tiougly di ubted and mistrusted the Whigs, in In tiding them his assistance in expelliog the 'furies; urn the same principle that Liids of the air that are per- petually set:itching and biting each other will cuter into " a close and affx- :karate uniart " when the hawk or some Other CO:111110H enemy makes Ids nip- pm oach. Ireland forgot her own griefs aud wrongs when she saw the eril of her beloveil hot tilipitying sister. C'atisidc.ing the leitmotivs. of the topic of's% bat time Ex-Premier did do wbr.ri in office, me may charitablv excuse him for giv:ng it the go-by, and eon- Laing imis trnis.ss to elmat lie intendr.r1 to do. If all " tile measures of ex- " whieh ht. o. inr,a,,h•d ra Impose" had been carried into elleet, he is mum! have actually performed in one session more in the way of Ififorin than what the whole body of Reformers have done in several. We are hoe reminded of a friend of ours who sent his sou to the school of an ad- vertising quack, from which, as the boy learnt nothing, Ire took him away, lest lie should lose the very little he had previously acquired. The schoolmaster was not only indignitot, but endeavoured to mortify the parent (as Sir Itonear does the English People), with what the boy had lost by the removal. " Had your son continued with me, I should have advanced him into the first ela-s ; Inc would have accomplished the choruses of aEscityaus in another sits-ion ; have mastered the J'rincipia; have been a profound mathematician, mei an acute reasoner; and beyond a doubt have obtained the gold medal which is lialf-yeaily awarded to the most deserving pupil of " Belniont Ilouse Ara- %leery." "If you intended to do all this," said the vexed and disappointed papa, " how the deuce is it that yuu did nothing at all?" Sir Ronan r is the seheoliniater, and, doubtless, thinks he shall mortify the EnglIsh People if he impresses them with the belief that they have lost in him a stanch Reformer, iustead of a half-and-half, timeserving place-hunter, the determined opponent of all refrains before they were effected, and their reluctant supporter when they could no longer be prevented. The speech, after all, is wind:ably characteristic of Has speaker : it is the address of one Who feels himself secure in the prejudices of an audience, although Le has not the slightest command over their sympathies. Sir HOLIER. bes CX- (4111,1t,.I. Skill ill awakening distr list and suspicion of the motives and objects of others, but he has no confideuce that his own motives will meat with a worthier appreciation. On the contrary, he evidently writhes under the tor- turing consciousness that they arc open to impeachment and suspicion. If he dill not feel the lash of this painful and humiliating conviction, why should these elaborate self-exculpations he for ever thrust before the public? these continual justifications of his political career, which, if honest and sincere, must i.e in justification of itself? Nom but a convicted rozate ever brags of his inn nesty, none but a demirep of her chastity : what shall we then say of a volitiman who is always Lolling forth on Ins own consistency and disinte- sesteduess?
Sir ROBERT winces at the use cf the word "claptrap," %%Lich has by sonic unaccountable oversight found itself in company with his name. 'file ambitious ironat lots as yet afforded us no other criterion to judge of his patriotism but 4-claptrap." If he descends to Ilia gr rve to•mot row, he must feel lie will be " unwept, unlionoured, and unsung ; '' that he has left no generous memorial behind -by which posterity can identify him as a lover and benefactor of his country ; nor indeed any splendid menument of his talents which would atone for the meagreness of his pan iatism. this shade cannot, like that of Ca Ni NO, justify itself to futurity with, " I cal.a1 a new world into existence ; " nor will his name be Nuked, like that of Leo:timer of his contemporaries, with one of the proudest aud most successful of I is country's strugglos for right arid liberty. lIe nanie of 30IIS It TSSELL gl Laden the heart: of tholeatels %via% Roar:ay PEEL'S will only be rrr.ni-r:, vied a ti It Of the lea!ler of a icarty-fac- firm already fast sinking to the melancliely cond:tion of " weeds and 'elan-out their mouths if they could have swallowed such a mouthful as this ! Does Sir NOBERT really think that there is any one in his Majesty's dominions gull or dolt enough not to know that he stayed in office as long as he had courage or confidence to face another struggle? After being defeated on every question, and being beaten on every division since his acceptance of office, he must have felt that, however he and his party might be forced down the throat of the na- tion, the national stomach could throw them up again with as little ceremony in the ejectment as there was in the intrusion. No one in his senses suspects that Sir Itoosma resigned office an hour too soon, or that he could have re- tained it with decency an hour longer. Ile is therefore entitled to as much credit for the grace of his departure as a well-behaved gentleman is when he leaves the room with a bow and a smile, after a lain hint from the master of the ceiemonies that unless be takes himself off quietly he will for a certainty be kicked down stairs.
But Sir Rooster dues not appear to have taken the hint as it was intended ; he does not seem to be conscious that the appointment of himself and his col- leagues was felt as an insult on the COIIII11011 MAW and good feelings of the Nation ; aud that no one but the misguided individuals themselves ever supposed that there was the slightest chance of their being tolerated, though but fur a brief period. If they attempted bad measures, they would be only scouted at as emblematical of themselves; and if they brought forward good ones, they would be viewed with the same distrust as a decent action is from a notorious rogue, who gets no other kr udos by his sudden conversion than the suspicion that he has some rascally end to cover by it. What chance had the fories then, even before the experiment had been tried, and what dame have they now, when it has been tried, and so miserably, so lamentably failed? And yet Sir Roesler had the hardihood to state as his belief, " that he and his party sell/ still successful"—words of direful import to the English People, and enough to sound the tocsin of alarm in the Natiou's heart, if he did not fortu- nately give his reasons fur his belief (a very impolitic piece of candour, by the way,) which is, "his confidence in the honour and integrity of his colleagues." This, Ly Non RST must say " is the unkindest cut of all "—ELLENBOROUGII
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