A traitor who gives his whole life to the State,

Whose zeal proves his spite, and his service his hate.

A truckler to treason and trickster for place,

Whose stubbornness oft throws him out of the race;

A lover of power and public applause,

Who dares to oppose the most popular cause.

A talkative sophist who will not explain;

A bad-tempered man, ever bland and urbane:

A casuist no one can half understand,

But whose sinister purpose is plain as your hand;