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der him , to his own . Speaking of the ancients , he said feelingly , " We know all we
can ever know about ' em : they are dead and gone : and I am surprised that gentlemen should quarrel and dispute over their coffins : I do not think it the
thing by any means . He must be a very queer random man who fancies he cannot get hot enough with the politics brewed in his own country , but must e ' en take a mouthful of Greek
and Roman . Whether one or other of ' em wrote this or wrote that , how does it concern us ? Why so nice then , and so punctilious ? Are we at the quarter sessions ? Are we before any
justice of the peace ? I hate a contradictory and litigious spirit , and would rather give a crown for a book that nobody stirs about , than three-and-sixpence for one that sets people by the ears . "
He was formerly member of a Pitt-Club , but having been cheated at Rome by a defender of faith and legitimacy , a noble who received three thousand crowns out of the million sent
by our lamented minister in order to excite the people to revolt , he was so incensed , as to declare he was firmly of opinion that the money had
been distributed among the greatest scoundrels under heaven . This language would have given great offence to the noble had it been uttered while
any more scudi from the same quarter could fall within his grasp : as it was , he caml y replied , «< Paarienza Signore ! He
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says what is possibly true . But that which was distributed in our country by the unsparing hand of your immortal minister , under the cognizance and with the participation of the French police , was distributed among the . scoundrels who did want
it ; while that which was distributed in yours , by the same inexhaustible munificence , was distributed among the scoundrels that did not . " Upon which Mr Pidcock Raikes
turned to his secretary , Mr Stivers , and declared he would strike out his name with his own hand . It pleased Providence to decree otherwise . On the
fourteenth of May , 1831 , at a quarter-past three , about twenty minutes after the termination of his dinner hour , he was seized with an apoplectic fit , and though no fewer than three leeches were in the course of
the night applied to his abdomen , the original seat of the disorder , as four physicians of the five declared , and although they ordered him early in tne morning a hot bath of olive oil , as they had done with similar success in the case of the Grand
Duke Ferdinand , he departed this life in the olive oil bath precisely at six , a . m . aged fifty-four years and two months . His mortal remains were conveyed from the shores of Italy to the family vault , according to his last will and testament .
which , together with a list of illustrious names in both Houses of Parliament ( taken from his books ) , will , if the public voice should imperatively demand it ,
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High and Low Life in Ital y * 91
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 91, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/19/
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