present catechism of legitimacy, to be a _cat’s-paw_ is to be virtuous—is to be moral—is to be pious—is to be loyal—is to be a patriot—is to be what Castles _is_, and Castlereagh _approves_!—This subject naturally leads us into low company and low allusions. As, after Fielding’s Hero had finished his speech on _honour_ his friend the _Count_ pronounced him a Great Prig, so, after Lord Castlereagh’s speech of Monday evening, we can no longer refuse to consider him a Great Man, in the sense of the philosophical historian; that is to say, a man who has a very great regard for himself, and a very great contempt for the prejudices and feelings of the rest of mankind. ON THE SPY-SYSTEM (_continued_) _July 15, 1817._ The debate in the House of Commons on Mr. Brougham’s motion took a very spirited, and rather personal turn. We do not think Lord Castlereagh was quite successful in rebutting the principal charges brought against his foreign and domestic policy. With respect to Genoa, for instance, and the late arbitrary contributions levied on British merchants there, his Lordship seemed to say that he had but one object, and that in this respect his conduct had been uniformly consistent while abroad, namely, to protect legitimacy, and that the rights and property of British subjects were accordingly left to shift for themselves, as things beneath his notice. This answer will hardly satisfy most of our readers. He considered it an illiberal and injurious policy to attempt to force our exclusive commercial interests upon foreign nations. But is there no alternative in his Lordship’s mind between bullying and domineering over other nations, and tamely crouching under every species of insult or act of pillage they may wantonly exercise upon us? We have put down the colossal power of Bonaparte. Is every ‘petty tyrant’ who has succeeded him, to brave us with impunity, lest a word of remonstrance, a whisper of complaint, should rouse their vengeance? Are we not to mention their names, lest these new Gods of the earth, these modern _Dii Minores_, should hear us! His Lordship also appears to despair of the restoration of peace in Spanish America. If he includes in the idea of _peace_ the quiet re-establishment of the tyranny of the old Government, we are happy to agree with him.