On the same evening Mr. Newdegate also addressed a dinner
party of his constituents at Solihull, in North Warwickshire, and -explained that his Conservatism was a Conservatism founded on the Constitution of 1688, and that Conservatism founded on any con- stitution of things previous to the Reformation was very wrong Conservatism, and Conservatism founded on any views of the Constitution as modern as 1865 was also very wrong Conser- vatism. He told his audience that the Weekly Register, a Roman Catholic paper, had attacked parliamentary government, and "he rejoiced in that confession, because it enabled them t3 see the secret adversary of so many years, who had not yet ventured to express -aloud the real feelings which animated him, and his [Mr. Newde- gate's] combat against whom had been misunderstood, because his adversary always cloaked his meaning beneath something enabling the public to take a favourable view of his side of the question." This is very mysterious language of Mr. Newdegate's. He appears to mean that he has some subtle enemy who is opposing him in numberless forms, and whom he has caught at last with- out a disguise in the Weekly Register. Who does edit the Weekly Register? Surely Mr. Newdegate does not mean us to suppose that it is the Adversary in person ? He would never have written against parliaments—in England.
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