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    • PITY A POOR PRINCE.
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      The Tomahawk. A Saturday Journal Of Sati...

      THE TOMAHAWK . A SATURDAY JOURNAL OF SATIRE . ( EMteli tp 3 trtt ) ux & 1 $ ectiett + " INVITAT CULPAM QUI PZCCATUM PRiETERIT . "

      No. 157.] London, May 71870. [Price Twop...

      No . 157 . ] LONDON , MAY 71870 . [ Price Twopence . ,

      Pity A Poor Prince.

      PITY A POOR PRINCE .

      There Is Nothing- Crueller Than Libel. T...

      There is nothing- crueller than libel . There is nothing easier to write and harder to refute . There is nothing so cowardly and dastardly . The pen may slip occasionally in the heat of honest indignation into exaggeration , may as it were unconsciously overstep the boundary of propriety in denouncing a bad thing or a vicious system , but the hand that would coldly indite a calumny calls for condemnation from every lip , reproaches from every heart . We are happy to say that personally , in spite of the torrent of abuse poured at one time upon this paper by the thoughtless and the snobbish , the Tomahawk has never appeared in the libel court . Considering the great " touchiness " of the public and the fate of a number of our less carefully-edited contemporaries ( h ' era , flourish from our own trumpet !) , this is saying a great deal , a very great deal indeed . By the time these pages are in the hands of the thousands sit and at the feet ght of , perhaps Tomahaavk , say without and hearken presumption unto his ) millions words who the case of the publisher of the Sheffield Daily Telegraph will have , been settled . In spite of the apology tendered to Lord Sefton , feel we shall compelled not refer to comment the case , upon as it th is e rumour sub Jttdice which , broug but we ht that case into court .

      Few of our readers will accuse us of assuming too partial a tone when dealing with H . R . H . the Prince of Wales . Times were when Tomahawk was anything but a Court paperwhen he was forced to give well-meant hints to those who dwelt in Pall Mall . The memory of those days will remove from his name the stigma of courtier and aristocrat . It seems now to be an accepted fact that whereas Smith , Brown Prince , of Jones the , Blood and Robinson Royal is quite are fair perfectl game y fre for e any from idle attack scrib , a - bler , with more ink than brains , and less respectability than either , to shoot at—in short , the law that shields Jones from the libeller is powerless when it refers to the Prince of Wales . As we have hinted above , we do not pretend to defend Royalty Mowing as Royalty " Post —we . W are are not the mply Cotirt English yonrnal , and , inherit nor are from we our the forefathers the heart of that love true -born fair p Briton lay th . We does , or e should haticall exist that , in every say mpy a " dead set" has been made against the Prince of Wales . And we say that a " dead set" against anyone is unfair and unfeeling . , We have y _ wish to paint " Albert Edward _ . , Prince of Wales __ "

      ( to quote the Prayer-Book—a verjrexcellent work ) as a Saint . Whatever the Pope of the Period may do in the twenty-fourth century , there seems no chance of Pio Nono canonizing the Heir Apparent—just at present . His Royal Highness is a cultivated without impropriety Englishman ) a very , and good ( if fellow we may . He be seriousl permitted y has to a great say , deal to do , and he does that great deal well . The Nation should be lenient with him . The number of foundation stones he has to lay , and after-dinner speeches he has to listen to , must be something enormous . Men about town " in retreat" will tell you that of all the dreadful bores upon earth the greatest and most dreadful is " Society . " Now the Prince sees the very worst side of Society—he is too high in degree to mix unreservedly with people , and only comes in for the formalities of the Court and Drawing Room " without any of those moments of relaxation which make " the whole world kin . " His Royal Highness must be terribly bared sometimes . Fancy having to submit to City toadery , or to listen to Municipal oratory ! The idea is too dreadful ! The Prince is very popular with theatrical managers and secretaries of charities . From the moment of " coming out" H . R . H . has never refused to assist a deserving chanty—he has presided over and over again at meeting and dinner , and as for the drama he is now recognized as tho saviour of the stage . As we have said above , we have no wish to paint him as a Saint ( H . R . H . is far better at Marlboroueh House

      than in a church window ) but we do protest against running him down as if he were the—h ' em , well , let us be polite and say—Mr . Newdegate ! When the Mordaunt case was attracting attention the Prince , was most unfairly libelled . There was scarcely a smokingroom in Pall Mall or St . James ' s street that did not ring with his name . He had written this and done that . When the matter came to be sifted it was found that all " he had written " were a few gentlemanly letters of rather a Polytechnic style of architecture (/ . e . y combining amusement with instruction—vide H . R . H . ' s remarks upon measles , Sec . ) All that he had done was—nothing ! But still Brown had it , " on the best authority , " that such a thing had occurred , andFitz-Doodiefroman equally ** reliable source , " knew that so and so had happened ! And the tattlers of the club twaddled and slandered to their hearts ' content ! But leaving the Prince out of the question ( H . R . H . is quite strong enough to deal with his opponents himself ) has it never occurred to the Smith , Brown , and Jones families that there is some one beside the Heir Apparent , some one very dear to the English people , who maybe grievously pained by their cruel

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), May 7, 1870, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_07051870/page/3/