The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-30 00:00:00

A CONVERT.

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TO THE EDITOR OP THE SUN.
SKETCH 111. OF HINTS FIZONI WESTAIVISTER.
Sir,—The Tory band, exhibiting their young ally, " Old
~6„hl°rY," turned a Tory. Made to van his coat by nantrhty
igs and Rads. The idol of reformers, it was hard to de-
Hoprive him of his idolators. A lemi-god before the Reform Bill.
ard
pill to swallow, that,: cruel, he could neither refuse,
resent, when the physic would move the spleen. Great
Man's vanity mortified. As the vapourish humours increase,
Zifall ir from his horse, gout, influenza, all the ills and accidents
"Te, prevent Parliamentary attendance. Gets peeviih at
oe, and goes to Court, Tories condole with him. Sur-
Pnsioil scenery in Tory-lan, where "Alps on ps Kr:turns over the views of d a
Al
Radical impostor.Al 'theal ten-
dern3s, of a penitent The Tory and apostate prints, with
the Waiting Geriaewoman, fall in love with him. Tickle
roe, and I wilt tickle you. He would honour a Court, and
a CA
"rt verauld honour him--such an hereditary gentleman!
" fio'l old English gentleman of the olden time," be had
sc"*.f::.chers. An ancestral witness, in giving evidence, threw
,u,-11 pomp and pause upon his forefathers, that the exa-
rni-ng Counsel exclaimed, in astonishment, " What ! did
But
you correctly ? Did you say you had Aur fathers ?"
Sons
of the swarm, have no fathers. And no wonder the
_l'ead of a vain old man should be turned, and that he should
i've of Dan O'Connell, the Big Beggerman, a plebeian
f,-.,°Pish pretender, who carries off the household gods.
S
tHem rogues of the Whigs—rogues all.) And, idolatry
e' toe penitent learns to jump Jim Crow to—(A hole in
Lallad)—to the air " Varium ac mutabile vulgus," or
tot e
i l"--believed
the people who have changed, and not "--bclieVed
composed by the Poet Laureat. And resolving to -).e spitefully famous, the patriot turns deserter to become
7luerticide.
Sharp turns, but no change. The Vicar of
Za,Y, a dishonest character, " had become a Jesuit," for
t.ol,att_or meal. But where an apostle of liberty sacrifices
feueerUause to vanity and pique, and no meal or malt,. but
wall°Lily, which arc nothing than air, pass "de nihilo
4 ---he not a Jesuit, but a patriot. While our divine
than two only a knave, but at a " cat-in-pan" a fool, grosser
fan raountain ; for with a glorious, " new-fangled" Re-
h°,,r'n°':s the mountain moves not the honest man. And, to
from mountain to sky, since
ur. " A Crow there flies in heaven's sweetest air,"
!onOld Crow takes a flying jump, leaving Jim, in open-
tauthed wonder, gaping after him in the clouds, and 'vault-
818g over Univeral Suffrage and Annual Par? atments in
, the sooty renegado alights on hereaJ.Cary wisdom in
Plights his troth to the Lords, e:ad cuddles into the
_ft:om of the Tories—and accotr:ofishes the entire move-
oloent without moving from Lis place, shifting position or
he was' or ch4nge of cha,racter—in leg and wing, is where
the nas,',"(l- as he was. Here the American Crow declares
`-'Luk -English Gentleman to be a " genuine Jonathan,"
'et but of the back-woods.
" As nothing, in time, or under heaven, would ever in-
tl,ee him to change"—(March 2, 1820)—his public place
„ being under the sun, the people beheld him, like that lumi-
74rY, moving ; but " turn about and wheel about," as he
47Parently may, it is the earth in revolution on its axis, as
1 .th men know, except the vulgar, and they who turn with
eir globe. Why, then, remove their worship to a Beggar-
-11)4'1,? And for a Reforming Government, which did not ,
ask, his aid or leave in his own domain, it was—infanduns
'ellovare dolorem—worse than Brookes's, to accept the
BPport of an upstart rival, with his tail. So, rising in
ker, another Neptune, amid the troubled waters, to crush
eak and trespassing Government, and flinging away
7.3 crutch, be says

il " Quos ego!"
ynd b,...comes a jumping Andrew before three kingdoms.
;,.!t, famous through England, Ireland, and Scotland for a
l'"Cgler—an evening's amusement in the metropolis, for new
,7tettitudes without variation, and political variations without
thange---our rara avis believes, with the silly ostrich, that
en he chooses to prostrate his head, no eyes will see when
°Pin are heaped in the dust ; for a city shall morally
4," as distinctly change from light to his dust-heap dark-
ceis : since how can he, who, for attachment to his own
tinciPles, calls his fellow-men creeping things, give human
Pll4tura credit for a ray of light, or a particle of common
i 180 ? And when pismires live in the dust, the King of
tuires must there hold his Court.
" But this is law, I will maintain,
Until my dying day, Sir,"
that, democrat or aristocrat, the Lion of Westminster is to
Lirnsolf and his allies the Lion of Westminster, of 1818 and
'B7 the same ; a true-hearted Englishman, " alone in his
41°"Y," " canter and recanter," " The Great Un'clianged,"
till, ego ct alter ego, veritable Hampden and Hampden
bi-fronted, " he grew the talk of all tongues."
JIM CROW.