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    having been the , first to rescue the journalism of the cause from " contempt . " How Cobbett ' s influence was "

    contemptible" we are at a loss to conceive ; and we are at equal loss to conceive in what quarters , not contemptible themselves , the Examiner was

    despised , whatever tone to that effect may have been pretended towardsit in others . The powers of its present editor no man can appreciate with greater readiness than ourselves , or have , oftenerjoined in praising . He is a wit of the times of

    Queen Anne , with greater political detail , though less general sympathies ; and we always feel grateful to him for carrying on the reputation of

    the paper , which he does with far more political ability than its former editor;—but with morq respectability in the eyes of the conscientious he could

    not , nor with greater encouragement from the respected . W $ enjoyed the good opinion of some of- the greatest men among the present leading Reformers , Whig > as well as Radical ; the Tory government

    surely did not despise us , for they felt our blows , and were loud in complaint ; and with res » pect to the great master , acknowledged by the publication in question , *—Mr Bentham , —he did us the honour ,

    like the , really great man he w $$ , with all his unpoetical drawbacks , of coming to , see us and make our acquaintance , because we had taken his fancy by the ungrudging nature of

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    our journal , and its love of fair play for its rivals . But perhaps the " contempt " spoken of may be that of what is called " the

    circles ; " a real power , we grant , in political matters , and in these times more visible than in most . But as this , we conceive , is not felt to be a contempt , " according to knowledge , " or one that implies any

    thing like a feeling of it in quarters where opinion is of more reputable consequence , we shall say nothing further on the subject , except to express a regret that the esteemed author of the remark ( if we guess him rightly ) should have confounded his want

    of retrospective information with a matter of fact . And poor Sir Francis Burdett ! Could not even he / the model of the lt fine old English gentleman , " rescue the cause he

    once advocated from the contempt of " the circles V Poor , rich , indolent , busy , publicitylovinsr . solids

    fame-never-acquiring Sir Francis ! ( as the good philosopher above-mentioned would have called him ) . He too ought not to be omitted in the list of the few who

    advocated the cause in its days of peril , though he is the only one , we think , who should dislike to be reminded of it . Poor , anxious , scornfulold gentleman ! What a noise did he

    not make by the mere show of a sympathy with the many , and a real earnestness in the love of that show ! what zeal did he not beget in his fpl- ^

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    232 Explanation and Retrospection—

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 232, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/8/