TOPICS OF THE DAY.
THE KING! GOD BLESS HIM.
THE King ought to dine where it pleases him: it is not at dinner where mischief is done. If Ministers are not able to afford their Sovereign to dine in any company that suits his fancy, they are poor creatures. If they are not satisfied with their official inter- course, there are proper modes of' expressing it, without setting their newspaper organs to pipe a most dolorous lamant on any of these occasions. We have much more reason to complain of their leaving the Army in the hands of the Tories, than they have of the King going to dine with any of his distinguished subjects. It is not in this piddling way that liberal objects are to be effected. Let the King, when he acts simply as an individual, do as it likes him : but let his Ministers proceed straightforward to carry the great measures of which, as they said, the Reform Bill was but as the means to an end.
The King is an amiable old man, full of all those expansive feelings that so commonly distinguish the sailor : let him in- dulge them-natural feelings on a throne are not so very common as to be despised. It seems lie bad the Waterloo-men, now Police- men, attending in the Duke's hall on the 18th, to drink with the gorgeous assembly of military rank the health of the General On the great day which made them all. Is this an additional offence? did not his Majesty mean something-had it not some reference to Cum:Vs affair? Then he shook hands with an old ser- vant of the Duke-kind old fellow ! The mere Whigs may cry out against this familiarity with the retainers even of a Tory household; but we admire the man who has escaped all the chil- ling influences of a court, and who in spite of the rude tram- mels that ministers and placemen would impose upon him, feels after all that he is more a man than a king.
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