Hard pressed as he was, we cannot grant him this indulgence.

He has, indeed, denounced, on other occasions, the _combined_ doctrines of Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage as chimerical and absurd; though how near he came to the point of recommending both, at the London Tavern, he is any thing but explicit; (in fact both, as Lord C.shewed, _were_ virtually recommended by him.) But what does he think of Annual Parliaments, in _conjunction_ with his rectified opinion of Suffrage, co-extensive with direct taxation?
Here he leaves us wholly in the dark; but if the turbulent workings of Mr.
Brougham's mind, and his fondness for contentious exhibition, manifested on all possible occasions, may be admitted as positive evidence, to corroborate the negative which his silence on this point implies, we are justified in believing that his passions were on that side, whatever might be the bent of his cooler judgment.

But this is of little import.
Introduce suffrage co-extensive with direct taxation, and Annual Parliaments must unavoidably follow.

The clumsy simplicity of the one arrangement would, in the eyes of its Admirers, match strikingly with the palpable expediency of the other.

Such a union is equally suitable to an age of gross barbarism and an age of false philosophy.