* A Courtier's loyalty is charmingly pictured in the portrait of Bubb Doddington, drawn by himself in his celebrated Diary. He was by trade a Boroughmonger, and his stock, consisted of six Members in the House of Commons, which he jobbed about and sold to the best bidder. At the close of his bargain and sale of the whole in a lump to the Duke of Newcastle for the king's service, there is a finish which renders the painting a fiue and matchless Cabinet specimen.--Bubb, who had been in disgrace at court for selling them elsewhere, said to tlie duke, "I knew I had given no just cause of offence, but that I could not justify it with His Majesty; that it was enough that He (the king) was displeased, to make me think that I was in the wrong, and to beg Him to forget it: I would not even be in the right against HIM!" The duke was delighted with this loyal and dutiful submission. Bubb says, "He took me up in his arms, and kissed me twice!" and Bubb was rewarded for laying his six members of the honorable house at the foot of the throne with the price he stipulated for--namely, the treasurership of the navy, and a peerage! The story was beautifully and most impressively related by the excellent- hearted and inflexible John Hunt, in his noble and successful defence, on the trial of an ex officio information for words in the Examiner charged not as false, but as libellous on the Honorable House. Then, under colour or pretence of law, Villains their victims to the shambles draw, Where sat the scoundrel Chief in ermined pride, And a pack'd jury in the box beside. The farce commences--justice heaves a groan-- The case is clear--a verdict for the Crown! When noble Russell and brave Sidney fell, Judges themselves rung, out Law's funeral knell! {167} Yet when their own destruction they foresaw, The passive knaves cried Liberty and Law! Took from their best of Kings his Right Divine, And abrogated fealty to the line; They made a precedent, dropp'd T from TReason, And found the best of words behind it--reason! The crown's a symbol, that the people meant, To mark their choice, or form of government; * The crown is theirs, and this has been their plan, To make the office sacred, not the man: Hence, if a tyrant on the throne appears, The place is vacant, and the crown is theirs. * All Majesty is derived from Law founded on right reason. A strength beyond that is mere force. The Magistrate formerly had no Majesty but while engaged in magisterial duties. His real dignity consisting in his legal authority.