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and a Caution thereon, 31
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Her Majesty's Name;
heads of those who are foremost in the van of human kind . They must either head advancement , and walk confidently along with it , or be left by the wayside . But of this grave matter we have spoken in another place . We
have here to do only with a name . It is supposed by some , naturally enough , that this name of a princess , born just after the downfall of Napoleon * was owing to the triumphant feelings occasioned by that event . The coincidence turns out to have
been curious , and there may have been a sense of it at the time , but the truth is , she derives the name from her mother * Seeing then that verbal critics , and even punsters , have their conquests as well as more
showy heroes , and do set up their flags on , and take possession of , any discovery to which their courage or genius may nave led them , we hereby give notice ta all whom it may concern , and more especially our brethren in pun and periodical ,
that in the name of her Majesty * s namey we do accordingly set our said ensign , or mark of proprietorship , on all and singular of the puns , quotations , applications , or other possible uses , of the word Victoria aforesaid , as connected
with the position , hopes , dispositions , demeanours , coronations , or any other qualities or circumstances of her said most gracious Majesty ; and we do hereby bar and prohibit and interdict all other persons from valuing themselves on any such
Her Majesty's Name;
pretended discoveries ever henceforward ; this present one * like the chief island in an archipelago , being the key , and _necessary domination-giver , to the whole . And that the
dullest may be at no loss , or the most cunning pretend to be at any , to know what is hus signified as barred and _inters dieted , we subjoin a few samples of the infinite wit and erudition to which we have
thus , at one conquering blow , made out our claim . As for example , — Nobody is to quote , under said pretended right of appropriation , or without acknow * ledgment of our said right of
conquest , any occurrence of the Latin or Spanish form of her said Majesty ' s name ; which form ( for the most part as to usage ) is the same as our English ; for instance , —where
Virgil , in his prophetical character as a poet , makes a certain illustrious Tory prince , who lately embarked from this country , utter those remarkable words : —
Non adeo has exosa man us Victoria fugit , Ut tanta quicquam pro spe ten tare recusem . Not so from our hands has Victoria slipp'd , That I would not do anything to be reshipp ' d : —
Nor that Dassaere in Ovid i \ or that passage m Uvid , where , by a remarkable coincidence of vaticination , a certain legal friend of the same individual , very acute at an insinuation , is introduced , pretending that her said Majesty has aot
And A Caution Thereon, 31
and a Caution thereon , 31
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page 31, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/29/
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