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col Elegisise, may find an amusing contrast to thes
ealnions in almost any of the numbeta which have
been published for the last sir months. For the
benefit of those oho do not see that Journal, we
shall tetrad a tees passages. It is needless to quote
any thing which he say. in Lis laboured and peed-
nacioas defence of the patrierie Baronet on occasion
of his rupture with Mr. W. its-need ; in the course
et which. be compleins bitterly of his old favourite
John Bowles. for having used • the most false and
'scurrilous exnrestions relative to Sir Francis.' In
vol. xi. p. 433. he is reereseet-d as having been
uniformly hated by every party which had existed
in his time, because t'...y were all be t open fatten-
ing on th- public moo y. and knew that he would
oppose them. In p 871, of the same volume, ..e
says to the Eleders of Westminster, if you sIIC
ceed in cawing Sir Francis Burdett to he returned
to Parliament. v)a will have done more for t. e
musky in fourteen tfays. than has been done for it
eluting the lest hundred years.' At p. 990, the e
'is this unequivocal confession of faith, We, the
rople of Eiigiand. feel that Sir Francis Burdett is
ear beet frienJ i—we pm tictpete in his principles ;
we rely on his talents and inteerity ;—we approve
of his deelar atiens;—w • mimetic the circulators of the
a-hundred-ernes refute! eilurreties at ernst him, area
look leeward. with confidence, to the day when those
e Amon es will bedrowned in the en inienous appleuse
pi a ao.longrobosomed people.' After this, it can-
not surprise us to find our exulting author congra-
tulating the country upon his being able to (Teo a
new volume with an account of • the chairing of Sir
Francis Burdett,' which he is pleased te eteissider as
the memorable sign of au era in polities; and after-
wards stating, that when the worthy Baronet's '
head became visible *beet the crowd, the air rang
With a shout. in which, had the King been in town,
he would have braid the voice of his people—the
eoend of that voice weich be will, ere loag, hear
from all his suejeas, the voice of lore and adMino
Lion of thugs who are the reel friends of the country,
and of indignation at those whet are its real ene-
mies,' lee This. we believe, is encingh for our
purpose ; though it would be hard to withhold from
our readers that spirited and liberal paragraph, in
whist' Mr. Cobbett, in expressing his indignation at
the idea that the mime of the ignoble Lord klowick
should ever be ceneeded with that of his darling
pool*. is pleased to say, that if any man had told
Bias OW such a cnnneaion had been hinted at, he
would almost hose been tempted to spit in his
facer
"Now. we should like to know in what way Mr.
• .Cobbett. or Mr. teobleett's admirers. can reconcile
**se panefes "they will scarcely venture se say,
dies Sir Franco Suedes, has abandoned the princi-
plea Womb he held in 1808. Whatever may be his
errors or hes demerits. the worthy Baronet is enti-
tled, at /east. to the petite of comistency ; and his
late potitical addresses are at least 1115 cAbOOZIOIIB to
maims loyalists sod antijaeohins, as those which
emitted Me. Cobbeu's indignation at the first of
those pent ele But the times, it will be said, have
ceanged a—they have come routes to Sir Francis,
lied have Wile.' 'Jr Cobbett along with them
Thus will not do ; is noises' in his Knits woo
will say, that in 1802 there was more CO be appree
headed from Jacnbinisin :has in 1807 e or that there
was less need 10 clamour fur a reform in paella-
meet, and a check to corruption. at the former than
at the latter period f It terniiins, dime that Mr.
Cobbete himself has changed. We cannot help it ;
Vor do we think there is any great team is it : the
change is perhaps tor the better ; for though we
can by no means go aloe' with the repos:on, en-
comiums which be now bestows on the caeca
of his former ditestetioo, vie really felt quite as
much disgnated with the abase which he then
Oared -open Lim. We never thought that the
Constitution was in any great danger from tee
worthy Baronet's plan of universal suffrage, aced
anneal parliaments; and certainly are not of
opinion. that his return to Parliament is the most
propitious and important event which has happened
in fenglithd foe the last hundred years. Both upi-
Moos appear to us to he stoneehr absurd and era-
- tional ; but we cannot help think ng it a little ex-
traordinary. that they should both hare eeen seal.
ously maintained by one and vie same individael,
and that this jedividuel should take it into his head
to value himeelf upon his political consistency. The
merits of Ace. C bbett's new cried, we shall take oc•
cession us appreciate by and by ; vs think it already
pretty epparent, that it bears no teem resemblante
to his, old one; and way pereaps be pet aiitted to
hinteu his admirers, that it might he as well, if one
whose faith is so liable to be unsettled, did not per-
secute with such intolerance all who ventured to op-
pose it.
Bet his eondud to Sir Francis Bet-Jett perhaps
•i; iefleenced by some pt ',cue attachment, and his
judgment of other public men is more temperate and
eenatitent. We can see no proofs of this; all are treat-
ed in the same Way—praised extravagantly to-day—
ablseed outregeeuiy to-morrow. We eo not recol-
lrel any one (except perhaps Mr. Windham) of his
ofirnat favourites, upon whom he has nut heaped
the ordure of his ignoble abuse; and scarcely one
whom lie reprobated at the beginning, vihu has nut
been compensated et last by the must preposterous
encomiums. Mr. Pitt, at the beginning of his career,
was the greatest of the great, the saviour of Europe,
the most magnaninic is of statesmen ; lately, his
readers have only heard of him under the appella-
tion of • that shallow. breined boas:ere—teat pa-
tron of peculation—that Foot, Ltillow, bnnibestic
declaimer, isc. Of Mr. Fox, he said. in 1402,
that he never thought him a ptoson u: any political
importance, or one who could eve: i. ye any
weight in the entire ifs t tee aation, (t p.
$3B) ; I.e is even guilty of te: ante:tees einerdity
of averring, with all the serionscen ,J Animo.
sty which he cal DHOW for the cetasiore that he
believes the only ohjed of that illumine's pet sen's
journey to Paris, in I 801. was to make hie:elf Mi-
nister of this country by the help of Lienapitte.
(p. 341 ) He thanks heaven, that of all his manifold
sins, teat of ever heaving, either in thou"!.t, %void,
or deed, been an edheient of Chalet leen is it it
among the number end that Le only breaks
ethough the silence rot disdain, on Account of the
consequence which ha derives from tl.e friendship
of the First Consul.• (p. 714). He mere than
insinuates his affedion for rebels, regicides, and
trasien. ; IVATta his • loath LIMP calumnies' on
-able et-

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