26 APRIL 1834, Page 12

AIDE-TOI.

THE next point to be determined for such a Society, is the form. . And here the rule should be, to eschew all formation. As men in fair weather build umbrellas, and calculate entirely on suiting them to the wet, so here the calculation should be for running in the teeth of the greatest possible quantity of arbitrary power, for such is the object against which the whole proceeding is intended. The body should be instinct with life all over ; a Multiplicity, in which none should be before or greater than another. If similar associ- ations arise throughout the country, anybody should correspond with anybody,and the sole chance left the Whigs should be to put down the Post-office. The only physical bond, should be an agree- ment to sup together weekly, at such place as should from time to time be fixed on. No lists ; an introduction should be by one man bringing another, as to a common fireside. When an individual consents to sup, it should by no means be considered as a declara- tion that he esteems himself peculiarly fitted for any prominent part, but only as an indication of general good-will. Nor should rigid inquisition be made into the extent of any man's acquies- cence in either the avowals or disavowals of the association ; a public announcement once for all, being quite sufficient to secure to them a practical majority. When a man comes there, it should be supposed he comes to aid, or lock for aid, against' the general enemy ; and there should be no attempt to hamper him with pledges beyond the present. Help to pick out a stone to-day, whether you will pick out another to-morrow or not. There would be no objection to sundry shades and gradations of hostility. Those who can handle a shovel, might occupy one corner; and such as can only twaddle with a checker at a time in a child's basket, might get together in another. There should be no quarrel with the little creatures, if they will only avoid being in the way, and not get trodden on. The fixed object of the whole, should be to take advantage of the time, when the deserters, by their acts of omission and commission, have produced a revulsion of the public feeling, and to push the point of the auger as far as it will go. Either a Whig or a Tory Administration might be considerably puzzled through the instrumentality of such a conccenacy.