["Our Trade is our Politics." Motto of the Licensed Victualler, as publicly avowed at a recent "great Meeting.">[
Dear Bung, that frank but huckster-like avowal
Is made continually, behind the bar.
It means—though rather "laid on with a trowel"—
A Trade with Public Spirit quite at jar.
The "mercenary politician," making
A pocket-business of a patriot's task,
Recently put your Press in a great taking;
But sordid selfishness here doffs all mask!