[The Dissolution of the Late Government and the Constitution of the Present]

First published Edinburgh Saturday Post, 23 February 1828, pp. 332–3. Reprinted Tave, pp. 316–24 (with attribution, p. 324). The article is another in the series about Huskisson. Internal evidence includes the italicization of ‘that’, the English rather than Scots perspective, and the informed interest in Liverpool society and in ‘Mr. Poggio Shepherd’ in particular. An allusion to Mistress Quickly, from Shakespeare’s English history plays, would be typical of De Quincey, and extremely untypical of the other writers for the Post, on many counts.