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their materials amounts in this case to nothing less than the provocation of a rival gaining credit for originating things which in reality he has stolen . This tenaciousness , not of copy-right but of credit for ownership , applies in the same degree to the weekly press , with reference to all substantive articles , and to all other periodicals . Of this injury the Monthly Repository has often had reason to complain . We have never noticed the circumstance before , because we
rejoiced at the dissemination of our principles , and because we are far from having any cause to be querulous at the general behaviour of the press towards us . What we are now about to make known is done in perfect good humour , and without the least dudgeon , albeit the instance is " a little too bad . " Our subscribers of last year will recollect an article , entitled The Royal Suitors . It appeared in the number for August ,
1836 , vol . x . p . 469 . The author of the ' Great Metropolis ' speaks particularly of this article as having produced a * sensation / and says it was from the pen of Mr Peacock , author of 6 Headlong Hall / &c . We are not at liberty to say who wrote it , but it was not that gentleman . The ' sensation / however ,
seems not to have been confined to the Great Metropolis , as the article has been the rounds of the Continental newspapers in a paraphrastic form . We believe the paraphrase first appeared in the National . Not having seen this number of the paper , we cannot positively say there was no acknowledgment made of the source whence the idea and most of the material
originated ; but as all the other foreign papers quote it as from the National , the said paper may have put forth the article as exclusively its own . Be it as it may , this time they are welcome ; but we hope the next will be acknowledged . The article looks well in its foreign dress , and as the paraphrast has frequently added an excellent touch' of his own
proper wit during the progress of the amorous ' narrative , we shall give a few extracts just as they stand . We cut out our specimens from L'Estafette , Mardi , 18 Octobre , 1836 . It is right to say that the introduction is neither a translation or paraphrase from our article—it is French wit , exclusive . We should also state that the remarks on the blindness of Prince
George of Cambridge find no archetype in our pages—we did not think such an affliction a fair subject for satirical animadversion . The remainder , here quoted , is all more or less paraphrastic .
" Us affluent au palais de Kensington avec une de p lorable abondance ! Saxons et Hanovriens , Teutons et Bavarois , tout ce qui peut produjre quelques quartiers , tout heVitier ruine * de nobles manoirs ; tone ce qui reste de mendiantes ligne ' es ; tout avorton de cet arbre monarchique aux branches fle * tries , et q ^ ui nourrit encore de sa maigre seye quelques pousses 6 tio \ 6 e *; tout principicule enfin , haut ou bas , jeune ou vieux , est venu offrir son rang ,
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1 & 4 Les Pretendans , ou Pretendus
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1837, page 184, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1829/page/58/
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