He managed, however, to ride out many a
storm, having one trusty sheet-anchor--Radicalism. This he turned
to the best advantage--writing pamphlets and articles in reviews,
all in the Radical interest, and for which he was paid out of the
Radical fund; which articles and pamphlets, when Toryism seemed to
reel on its last legs, exhibited a slight tendency to Whiggism.
Nevertheless, his abhorrence of desertion of principle was so great
in the time of the Duke of Wellington's administration, that when
S--- left the Whigs and went over, he told the writer, who was
about that time engaged with him in a literary undertaking, that
the said S--- was a fellow with a character so infamous, that any
honest man would rather that you spit in his face than insult his
ears with the mention of the name of S---.
The literary project having come to nothing,--in which, by the bye,
the writer was to have all the labour, and his friend all the
credit, provided any credit should accrue from it,--the writer did
not see the latter for some years, during which time considerable
political changes took place; the Tories were driven from, and the
Whigs placed in, office, both events being brought about by the
Radicals coalescing with the Whigs, over whom they possessed great
influence for the services which they had rendered.
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