Some diseases are made to cure themselves by aggravating their
symptoms. Upon thi principle, COBBETT may find it easier to suit Parliainentary hours to his convenience by increasing the lateness of its sittings, than by endeavouring to make the House assemble at an early hour. Extremes meet in this case ; excessive lateness becomes extraordinary earliness. For instance, the House fre- quently sits till six or seven o'clock in the morning : Mr. COBBETT usually gets up at four o'clock. Let him rise in his place an hour earlier, "like a giant refreshed with sleep ;" and the wearied orators and drowsy listeners will fall an easy prey to his voracious eloquence. The Speaker will wink at his violations of order, and incontinently nod assent to the most outrageous propositioni. Should COBBETT divide the House upon any motion of Ministers, as the majority of the members would be snoring, the noes would certainly have it. After the breaking up of the House, he might mount his horse and ride home to breakfast before the members had well got to bed. The sleepy indifference of the reporters would not tifect him : for, anticipating the barking of his oratory by the reporthers as he calls them, he has engaged a newspaper
per;ary to report his speeches ; and, that being an 'Evening
o there will be tletity of time to mil& them from the notes f . 3.;o:iers, who, `hke lumgelf, will'be‘ peep o'day boys."
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