Topertoe, or Lord Castle Cumber, as we must now call him, like many others, had the high honor of being a Union Lord--that, is to say his attachment to his principles was so steady, that he did not hesitate to sell his country for a title, and we may add, something besides.

It is not our intention, at this distance of time, to discuss the merits of either the union or its repeal; but in justice to truth and honor, or, perhaps, we should rather say, fraud and profligacy, we are constrained to admit, that there is not to be found in the annals of all history, any political negotiation based upon such rank and festering corruption, as was the legislative union.

Had the motives which actuated the English government towards this country been pure, and influenced by principles of equality and common justice, they would never have had recourse to such unparalleled profligacy.

This is self-evident, for those who seek an honorable end will scorn to obtain it by foul and dishonorable means.

The conduct of England, therefore, in this base and shameless traffic, is certainly a _prima face_ evidence of her ultimate policy--a policy blacker in the very simplicity of its iniquity than its worst enemies can paint it, and so obvious in its character, that we question whether a man could be found, of ordinary information, belonging to any party, capable at this moment of deliberately and conscientiously defending it, so far as pertains to this transaction.