The calculations of the Radical party, when they join with
t' Tories, are not so devoid of reason as the gentlemen who exela. against the unnatural conjunction, as they call it, would insilne, It seems plain, that if the Tories ever come into power again, th can only maintain their places by a liberality of conduct, wit:, proceeding from what motive it may, the Whigs need not, a probably will not show. A strong government is a mighty go, thing for the governors, but it is very seldom a good thing the governed. The Reform Bill, be it recollected, was planned I the weakest government, in the ordinary sense of the word, th perhaps ever the country knew ; and hence, it may be inferred, i extreme liberality. But the Whigs bid fair in the new Bari, mint to form, instead of a weak, a very strong government; at it is consistent with all experience that they will use their strong for their own purposes in the first place. It was a thoroughgoi, Tory* who long ago observed, that there was no principle in pub. bodies but the principle of interest; and that whatever was o, tained from them must be wrung from their fears, not from the virtue.
* BO:I.:KT-SON the historian.
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