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    lowers ! What confidence ! what enthusiasm ! what a roaring in tbestreets , and a credit for every virtue in private ! If he had a reputation for gallantry , it was construed in the handsomest manner . He

    was a sort of Henry the Fourth with us , of whom no ill opinion was to be entertained , seeing that he wished " a fowl in every man ' s pot . " How natural , we thought , that he who

    overflows with such love to his species , should not be able to restrain it towards the more loving portion . Alas ! we now begin to fear that he never had any sympathies at all , erroneous or otherwise . The

    fowl in the pot he has left us to find how we may ; and nobody meanwhile , it seems , ever saw the one in his own . His present zeal , during the interval of its direction against his old friends and Mr

    O'Connell , who is his " Mrs Grundy / 1 * is all for ships and horses ; which to the disparagement of the infantry and the great guns , he calls the two thunder-bolts of war ; or , not to defraud him of his

    scholarship , the duo fulmina belli . He is horribly excited at our not having ships enough to compete with the Czar of Muscovy , and at the notion of the royal stud ' s going out of

    the country , especially as it might be bought in for a " trifling consideration ; " and he magnanimously hopes , that the glorious old nobility

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    and gentry of England will " raise a subscription" for that purpose , rather than see his country so degraded . Dear , interesting Sir Francis ! why doesn ' t he pay the two-pence

    himself ? He is very rich , and his family has just had riches heaped upon riches . Why not himself make the country a present of the stud ? We would stand by him during the bleeding of his purse , atid help his old age from being overcome by the operation .

    But enough of retrospection , and more than enough of apostasy . "We shall conclude this not verv definite article a / with briefly showing the whole amount of all that we intended

    to say in our last , either to Radical Reforoiers , or Whig : — all which , it is requested to be borne inmind , wesay , not in our own person , which would be a presumption , but as belonging to a sincere , perhaps

    comparatively sequestered , but not altogether uninfluential body of Reformers , for in their connexion with books and the

    press , they help to influence opinion : and this opinion we would fain see heartily on the side of those who have got the cause in their hands , whether as ministers , or those who would fain assist ministers .

    All we say then to the Radicals is , —Get a leader . Exoriare aliquis . Have enthusiasm enough to produce among you some one man , recognized and pre-eminent ,

    • " What will Mrs Grundy ' say ? " the constant exclamation of the ealous old lady in the comedy of John Bull .

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    The '' Examiner " twenty years ago * 283

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 233, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/9/