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ties of the subject , that he has taken the whole of them into his own princely keeping . But in Poland it will never do—so take our advice and do not go to sleep again . We hear that you have had some disagreeable dreams—that you were crushed by a niejht-mare which you call Autocracy , and haunted by a half-human incubus , who bore the name of Constantine . We are concerned to hear it - but we impute it all to indigestion—and advise you by all
means to take some Tartar emetic . We have consulted John Abernethy respecting you . —He advised us to purchase his book , and you to take some tincture of steel . This , however , we would delay , until the emetic has operated . When your digestive organs are freed from their present acrid and fretting accumulations , we would then advise you to complete the cure by taking the advice of the aforesaid eminent man . Depend upon it , it will do
you good . And in future , gallant Polacks ! attempt not to live upon food which agrees so ill with your constitution . It brings on indigestion , and indigestion , in turn , produces all those troublesome fancies which make your long polar nights so wretched . Our private opinion is , that you have endured it too long—but better late than never—and we are glad to hear that you are thinking about rising . Do not forget the tincture of steel—it is an excellent tonic—and your constitution requires it .
It seemeth to us as if there were a regular Swing Union among the nations to disturb us . They will not let us sleep . " A nap—a nap—my kingdom for a nap ! " But it may not be—they will not let us be quiet . And—the wretches !—not only do they know how to direct the aim , but how to time the blow at such a crisis , that it shall seem and be doubly intolerable . It seemeth to us but as yesterday—that sad affair at Paris . We recollect it well ,
too well for our satisfaction . It was during the hottest part of last summer , and we had determined upon taking a most prolonged and voluptuous siesta . Alas , for the expectations of man ! His hopes are like the fruits of that melancholy shore , where death appears to live and life to die . He biteth , and spluttereth forth the unsavoury and abominable deception . So it fared with us , in the summer of 1830 . We had just drawled
out—O qui nos gelidis in vallibus Haeim Sistat , et ingeuti raniorum protegat umbra ! when what should we hear but a tremendous hubbub from Paris , accompanied with cries indicative of another Revolution ! We hate Revolutions . They are the great disturbers of the ancient peace of the world—** wakening the realms of chaos and old night . " We sprang from our sofa , went up to the top of George-Hill , climbed the only tree we could find , and looked over
the channel . A very pretty sight we saw there . A very respectable old gentleman was moving away with his wig on fire—and an illegitimate Parisian was throw ing the royal petticoat of the Duchess of Angouleme out of a window of the Tuilleries . Horrid profanatiom ! Another was taking the same liberty with a hair-cloth shirt , which had been the garment of the son of St . Louis , when he went to masquerade . Abominable illegitimates ! But there was more yet— " there ' s pippins and cheese to come . " They
chose another king for themselves , and made him swear to protect their rights and liberties . The rights and liberties of the people in the nineteenth century ! " O tempora ! O mores ! " Knowledge has undone us . We shall soon not have a chain to put on , or a dungeon to creep into . " Age , thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods" —or thou never couldst have put up with these awful innovations . " It is most tolerable , and not to be endured . " To think of a king reigning by any other than " the right
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1831, page 180, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2595/page/36/
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