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purposes , by acting upon his intellectual superiors . How much talent , and often of no inferior order , has degraded itself in relation to the subject of these remarks . Among the literary Swiss of Toryism there are men who might have earned unfading laurels for their brows in an honourable cause . They must , in that case , have foregone the wages of faction , the payment for their reiterated assertion of facts which they
never could know to be true , and of principles which the very extent of their intellect is proof that they do know to be false . Through all the grades of mercenariiiess down to the placard
and picture men of the streets , it is evident that the foul spirit of party has been at work , unchecked iu its nefarious , demoralizing , and vindictive career even by the triumphant decision of the law in favour of the accused . This is not the natural excitement of public interest . It is not the uninfluenced result of the connexion between demand and supply .
The penny purchasers of coloured prints and pamphlets have no particular pleasure in scandalizing Mrs . Norton , nor any animosity towards Lord Melbourne . Temptation has been diligently thrown in their way by that power which will never cease from attempts to demoralize the peogle until it is entirely eradicated . Painted placards of indecency , and open beer shops for voters , are portions of the same machinery .
How can such a genius as that of H . B . not blush to find itself iu the same ranks with all this rascality ? So far as we know , his pencil has never been dirty before , though it may often have been venomous . For the latter , we do not quarrel with him . If by some strange and inexplicable idiosyncrasy the creator of those magical sketches , in which the best conceptions of Hogarth are idealized , be indeed an honest Tory ,
heaven forbid but he should take his full swing , and caricature every Whig * and Radical who merits the distinction . But in the present state of society there are many and obvious reasons why he should not war on women . YVith Tory Gentlemen it may be a matter of perfect unconcern what beauty or sensitiveness they trample upon in their rush towards the Treasury Bench ; but with a lory artist the case is widely different .
He should tell the scavengers of faction to do their dirty work themselves . He should have been disarmed by the intellectual loveliness , beaming with hereditary wit , an bright and lambent as his own , which it is obvious he has contemplated with no casual or unrepeated glance . He should have thrown his pencil at the head of any one who dared to hint at the libel to which his mysterious nigmiture was recently appended , even though that head wore a coronet . Me should have exclaimed ,
* The Deil be could nu sk nth thee , Nor might that did l > tlaiii > tliee ; HtVd look into thy bomiv fa <*«\ And sav , 1 ciiniiu ' wrung thrt * ! '
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896 Politics of the Common Pleas *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 396, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/4/
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