Financier

,—a Chancellor of the Exchequer who excels in taking money from the people’s pockets in the easiest and genteelest manner. When it is necessary to raise a loan, or to levy taxes, the minister, like the frog in the fable, erady to burst with the sense of his own dignity and importance, collects around him the monied men of the city, and attends to their different propositions, with all the affected gravity of his station. He then consults one confidential and experienced friend, who is always employed on these occasions, whose advice he uniformly follows, and then, wrapt up in the mantle of pride and consequence, he goes down to the House of Commons, opens his budget in an eloquent, elaborate speech, in which he shines with borrowed feathers, and thus on the merit of another, Mr. Pitt acquires the reputation of a most accurate calculator, of an excellent Financier.