“And whoever believeth not all this shall be damned.”
ST. ATHANASIUS.

The Members of Opposition are all equally poor—YET the poor ones are wholly maintained by the rich.

Notwithstanding the above is their only support—YET their only means of living arises at the gaming table.

Though these poor dogs win so much money at BROOKES’s—YET the
Members of BROOKES’s are all equally indigent.

OPPOSITION cannot raise a shilling—YET they maintain an army of scribblers, merely to injure an immaculate Minister, whom it is not in their power to hurt.

They are too contemptible and infamous to obtain a moment’s attention from any gentleman or man of sense, and the people at large hold them in general detestation—YET the gentlemen and men of sense, who conduct the Ministerial papers, are daily employed to attack these infamous wretches, and in endeavouring to convince people who are already all of one mind.

Their characters are so notorious that no person can be found to give them credit for a shilling—YET they are constantly running in debt with their tradesmen.

They are obliged to sponge for a dinner, or else must go without—YET they indulge themselves in every species of debauchery and dissipation.

Their prose is as devoid of argument as their verse is of wit—YET whole troops of ministerial writers are daily employed in answering the one and criticising the other.

Their speeches are laughed at and despised by the whole nation—YET these laughable and despicable speeches were so artfully framed, as alone to raise a clamour that destroyed the wisest of all possible plans, THE IRISH PROPOSITIONS.

They have traiterously raised a flame in IRELAND—YET the IRISH are too enlightened to attend to the barkings of a degraded faction.

Their ROLLIADS and ODES are stark nonsense—YET the sale has been so extensive as to have new clothed the whole BLUE AND BUFF GANG.

They are possessed of palaces purchased out of the public plunder—YET they have not a hole to hide their heads in.

The infernal arts of this accursed faction, and not his measures, have rendered Mr. PITT unpopular—YET is Mr. PITT much more popular than ever.

In short, OPPOSITION are the most unpopular, popular; poor, rich; artless, artful; incapable, capable; senseless, sensible; neglectful, industrious; witless, witty; starving, pampered; lazy, indefatigable; extravagant, penurious; bold, timid; hypocritical, unguarded; set of designing, blundering; low-minded, high-minded; dishonest, honest; knaves, as were ever honoured with the notice of the MINISTERIAL NEWSPAPERS.