Page:Rose 1810 Observations respecting the public expenditure and the influence of the Crown.djvu/83

 It is meant to peak with repect of Oppoion that is, of Oppoition in the abtract, without reference to any individual peron, or combination of perons. An author who wrote the tract here alluded to, under the eye of that great miniter, whoe firt exertions, after his acceion to political power, it was meant to record and illutrate,, has defined Oppoition in the following impartial and honorable terms; and it is to the credit of that illutrious tatefman's candor and liberality that (as the author informs us ) Mr.Pitt himelf revied and corrected the pamphlet in quetion:— "It is material to conider whence aries this general afe-guard, which the public poees, againt the malveration of miniters againt the intentional abue, or the Ignorant miapplication, of the powers with which they are intruted. The popular nature of our government furnihes a check, of which the operation is contant, becaue it is excited by natural and increaing caues. The opportunity which parliament affords to the young, the butling, and the ambitious, of canvaing public, "mea-