But you have deprived yourself of the plea of decorum by giving no opinion on the REFORM OF THE LEGISLATURE.

As undoubtedly you have some secret reason for the reservation of your sentiments on this latter head, I cannot but apply the same reason to the former.

Upon what principle is your conduct to be explained?
In some parts of England it is quaintly said, when a drunken man is seen reeling towards his home, that he has business on both sides of the road.

Observing your Lordship's tortuous path, the spectators will be far from insinuating that you have partaken of Mr.Burke's intoxicating bowl; they will content themselves, shaking their heads as you stagger along, with remarking that you have business on both sides of the road.
The friends of Liberty congratulate themselves upon the odium under which they are at present labouring, as the causes which have produced it have obliged so many of her false adherents to disclaim with officious earnestness any desire to promote her interests; nor are they disheartened by the diminution which their body is supposed already to have sustained.

Conscious that an enemy lurking in our ranks is ten times more formidable than when drawn out against us, that the unblushing aristocracy of a Maury or a Cazales is far less dangerous than the insidious mask of patriotism assumed by a La Fayette or a Mirabeau, we thank you for your desertion.