As in the hollow of a rotten Oak, So in the rotten hollows of the State ; A nest of plundring hornets to provoke, Calls thousands forth to urge their venom'd hate. Tis hard the honey of industrious Bees, Should fatten drones, in pensions and in fees! GENTRY, MERCHANTS, FARMERS and TRADESMEN: to which occafionally will be added An Impartial Account of Books in feveral Languages, and of the State of Learning in Europe. Also of the STAGE, New OPERAS PLAYS and ORATORIOS, VOL.LXVII. Publifhed Monthly according to Act of Parliament, By John Hinton, at the Kings Arms in Paternofter Row near Warwick Lane, London. Price Six Pence. CONSIDERATIONS on the Nature of POLITICAL DIVISIONS in England: By HE total freedom from violence with Twitter political coventions in England are conducted, affords a ftrong proof of the foundness of the principles on which the English Government is founded; and confute the opinion of foreign Writers, who, mifled by the apparent heat with which thefe debates are fometimes carried on, and the rumours to which they give occafion, look upon England as a perpetual fcene of civil broils and diffenfions. In fact, if we confider, in the first place, the conftant tenour of the conduct of the Parliament, w we fhall fee that whatever dif. ferent plans the feveral orders that compose it, may at times purfue, and whatever use they may, in confequence, make of their privileges, they never go, with regard to each other, beyond the terms, not only of decency, but even of that general good understanding which ought to prevail among them. NUMB. CCCCLXÍV, VOL. LXVII. M. De LOLME. Thus the King, though he preferves the ftyle of his dignity, never addreffes the two Houfes, but in terms of regard and affection; and if at any time he chufes to refufe their bills, he only fays that he will confider of them; which is certainly a gentler expreffion than the word VETO. The two Houfes on their part, though very jealous, each within their own walls, of the freedom of speech, are, on the other hand, extremely careful that that liberty fhall never break out into unguarded expres fions with regard to the person of the King. It is a conftant rule among them never to mention him, when they mean to blame the Adminiftration; and those things which they may chufe to cenfure, even in the speeches made by the King in perfon, are never confidered but as the faults of his Minilters, or in general of those who have advised him. The two Houses are alfo equally atten. A tive |
