The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-03 00:00:00

MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

A clever number, and well fitted to the season.
The politics, as usual, are truculent and inexpli-
cable. " Aphorisms on Man, by the late Wm.
liazlitt," are gems in tbeir way, acute, paradoxical,
and original. " The White Spectre of Malinanza"
iS a tale of the times of old, of the days of feudal
grandeur, of haughty Barons, imprisoned Knights,
end dierressed damsels. It evinces considerable powers
°I description. "My Uncle's Diary at Calais" is a
capital morceau, full of whim, with many touches of
Character. Of the merits of " The Population Ques-
tion"—" A Dissertation on the merits of Alr.Sadler
444 the PoliticalEconomists"—we shall not pretend
to say a word, as we look upon political economy
to be the arrantest of all humbugs, and upon the
Population theory to be just as bad. " Notes of the
konth" are penned in a spirit of the usual causticity.
The following observations are useful : they should
be generally known :
" If the radicals ever expunge the Constitution from the re-
ords of England' it will be by the help of such documents as the
" Memorandum of some of the Pensions, Grants, &c. of the
Cockburn Family, taken from the Lists laid on the table of
the House of Commons.
Vice. Admiral Sir George Cockburn (this is not all by a
bgreat deal)
they Cockburn. Esq., Solicitor-General in Scotland 2,000
A.
LCockburn, Esq., late Minister at Wirtemburg 1,700
ame Augusta Cockburn 600 948'
..ditto ditto 338
b'lgusta Cockburn (supposed not to be the Dame)
i,razile Mary Cockburn erSO
OrY Cockburn (supposed to be another) lOO
b4nlly Cockburn lOO
•,,;31"riet Cockburn • .200
Otto ditto
.larianne Cockburn

Per annum £7,71
Besides which, one of the family, who was sent to Mexico as En-
.5Y, expended and received as ;Mary, in about six months, 9,0001.
, ' Here the immediate provision of a set of people, but one of
It'knorn has ever acquired any kind of public distinction, and even
eat, trivial enough : for what after all have bn the services of
Ir_ George Cockburn, more than the common class of sea-oth-
? are paid for at the rate of nearly 8,0001. a-year. The
botch solicitor.general may be a good lawyer and entitled to his
j7;,larY• But of what utility have been the services of A. Cock-
•';',,rb, Esq. late ambassador at Wirtemberg, to entitle him to
;eOOl. a_year, (observel after having received so many four thou-
rkls ayear ; by the Scotch influence of those people, this
7,son has been kept in employ at one or other of the German
_Nils for the last twenty years. The retiring pensions of those
TXtravagantly paid gentlemen our diplomati is must be entirely
Ped ott: But then comes the barefaced part of the business.
;;,7 e are seven ' lilies of the field,' that neither sow nor spin,
lip demand to be kept in houses and coaches, the luxuries of
Ve, and the pride a the high blude o' the fecinily,' as Sir
,ertinax says; by the draining of John Bull's pocket, who must
~0,1,k without shoes to his feet, and live in eternal fear of the tax-
gatherer that those well-born persons may not disgrace the
iinble race of lienkin,' by working for their honest livelihood,
`e so mail), other people just as worthy in the sight of mankind.'.