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NATIONAL. ANNIVKRSARIES.
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< Please to remember poor old Guy F Yes , if , is come to this . Even those ragged urchins , who will be in at the death of the gunpowder plot commemoration ; who will live to see the last of the first festival in our national calendar ; who , though they know
1 No reason "Why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot / are themselves in such a state of oblivious confusion , that in the figure they fabricate , the attributes are blended of the Pope and
the conspirator ; and they appeal to our compassion , in the tone of affectionate supplication , something like pity the sorrows of a poor old man , ' for this compounded horror of the tiara and the tinder-box . The gunpowder thanksgiving is damped beyond all possibility of future igniting . It has missed fire for so many years that it will never blaze again ; and the paupers in the streets ,
like the priests in the churches , poorly preserve , for the sake of the pence , the ragged remnants of the ceremony . As a public anniversary , as a national commemoration , the 5 th of November has (now , for a long time , been dead and gone , rotten and forgotten . Even the Percival No Popery * cry could not blow up the blownout embers of that grand blow-up that was to have been ; and in
later attempts , how many anti-catholic crackers have proved to be very harmless serpents . The feeling has passed away , and the fireworks follow . The tar-barrel is out , and so is the beer-barrel . There is scarcely left the dim , cold memory of a memory . The festival has given up the ghost , and the nation has given up the festival , with nothing but the Irish moral for its epitaph : —
' To-night & the day , I speak it with great sorrow , That we were all to have been blown up to-morrow , Therefore beware of fires and candle-light , 'Tis a cold frosty morning , so good night !*
Nor are any other of our festivals in better condition . Some Irishmen continue to drink € Glorious and immortal memory ;' ( which is not another festival indeed , but the same ; this being gifted with duplicity of deliverance ;) but they probably do not know whose memory they drink , and very likely suppose it to be their own memory , viz . of the good things that are gone , in the
precious days of Croppie-catchin cr , Protestant peculation , long leases of puolic property , and jovial jobbery all the land over . On the 30 th of January , when extremes meet ; that Janus of a Jay , which looks proud to some and penitential to others ; one does sometimes see a cold church with its doors open , and nothing going therein ; and a hot calf ' s head with its mouth open and a
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 749, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/1/
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