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and snobs , are all at fault , cr running pell-mell over each other , there will , or I am much mistaken , be a general cry for the master of the pack . Then shall I , having first courteously thanked you for having unkenneled a game / was not allowed to beat for , and having also civilly troubled you to dismount and to
give me the saddle , —then shall I , gallantly backing your horse , cheer the old dogs on to the old game . Think only of the picture of the field at that moment . Your friend his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury , booted and spurred for the chase , riding in full canonicals , and wearing one of his most angelic
smiles , will , 1 dare say , give you , —not his vote , but his blessing , as you lie on the ground , and then ride by , smiling on the other side . Then also , rny old whipper in , by the field called Sir Robert , but nicknamed by the snobs red-headed-Bob , will , with one of his most civil sneers , kindly advise you— never again to start this Catholic game , till , like him , you are prepared to hunt it to THE DEATH . '
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We are at least as muxmWruck by the truth of the above jeu d ' esprit , as by its humour . vThe moral of the fable is this , that unless the Whigs can make it plain to the public , not by assertions , but by facts , that the obvious power all think they might have gained towards the pacification of Ireland , by admitting Mr . O'Connell into office , was for some hidden reason altogether
impracticable , the public will never cease feeling that , not Whig principle , but Whig pride , has , to use our Correspondent ' s illustration , * thrown the best trump out of their hands ; ' and that the consequences , which must result from the hunt which soon will be up , might have been averted by a less haughty policy .
ror the blundering game the Whigs have been playing ever since the last Session of parliament , namely b y alternately irritating and soothing the Irish Catholics , irritating them by the present injustice of tithe persecutions , and soothing them by promises of future benefits , — -this game has been so much the more childish , because those whom our Correspondent calls , * parsons-of-ten , might have been far better provided for by the resources which the Irish Church reform will put into the hands of government ,
and this without provoking the ' Catholic-parishes-of-ten-thousands / And , lastly , for this stupid wicked measure , the dragooning of all Ireland for the pacification of the parishes which Whig impolicy has provoked , it is so double-dipped Tory both in principle and in consequence , —it is so tyrannical , and it will prove to have been so foolish , that it seems explicable only on one supposition—quos vult perdere prius elemental .
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Hew to Play a Losing Game . 287
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1833, page 287, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2612/page/71/
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