The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-01 00:00:00

MAGAZINE DAY.

FRASER' S MAGAZINE.
We really like Regina, as Fraser fantastically styles
hi‘ IVlagazine, if it were only for her unparalleled im-
Pudenee• There is something exquisitely absurd in
fseeing writers of this stamp puffing and blowing around
body of Toryism, galvanizing the poor de-
and main, and, as the convulsed limbs
;tilt. an fight d
quiver at each shock, crying out with the
tusi; e dead
gethn: ofso many children over a toy, and mistaking
muscular contractions for the throbs and throes of
we' Had Regina only a single grain of modesty, she
his
often be intolerable ; but, as it is, no showman
11, an Easter fair ever blew the trumpet more loudly in
booths 'in), praise, or was more active in cry g
in down the
of his neighbours. We can fancy her presid-
ing at her tea-table in Regent-street, and doling out,
asd,she sips her hyson, such axioms as these to her
te:aturing lieges, « We have mounted the throne of li-
:t p. 310_-.‘, Hogg is a litterateur," p. 378---
rkdord Brougham is an astounding humbug, who must
,sce long sink into the profoundest contempt," p. 366,
ofe4e. Surely that lively Frenchwoman must have been
sw-the Party, who admonishes her, guests to " milk and
so eaten yourselves, young ladies," for Regina does by
ficine odd means contrive to milk the public, while she
awlthfullY follows the other half of the advice in
eet _
ening herself, and no doubt she needs it. It is
expelled
time, however, that all this self eulogy should be
hPelled from the republic of letters, and abandoned to
e op
charlatans and mountebanks, from whom it was
glinally borrowed. Fraser's Z'lagazine is certainly
ever, smart work enough, but with no just preten-
will' Whatever to call itself the first of the periodicals,
elllen all its best points are clearly borrowed from
th ristopper North, who could at any time demolish
wiethwiliple concern by a single blow of his crutch, not-
:tanding he has grown old and gouty. Indeed
in propose to oursleves the pleasure of one day bring-
begh Regina to her senses, if she does not mend her
wh behaviour grow a little more guarded with her tongue
andil 'Peaking of others, and leave off this plastering
dizzening out of herself, which, to speak the
a last truth, gives her very much the air of
take adY on the pave. Not that we wish to
ger awaY Regina's character,—all the tutelary
an Ii of impudence forbid !—but we would ask
and decent man, if it is becoming in a female
way: queen to boot, to go flaunting along the high-
pass'e swearing and whooping, and abusing the
ars.4b3r, and sometimes even spitting in their faces
Let they refuse to give her " a little sixpence ?"
t her then mend her manners, or to Bridewell the
pelaZant goes, unless Bedlam should appear a fitter
kings where she may throne it among other imaginary
leisure and queens, and twist straw coronets at her

The 0
excel, Pening article for this month is, as usual, an
No rent4ber specimen of Tory discussion and Tory politics.
al or comprehensive views of the questions
fil
eh
I, are now agitating not only this country but all -Arope
or of ' "0 development of any great.
we
political principle,
can anY other principle, are even
.attempted ; all
pages earn from some twenty or thirty closely-printed
ontrof noise, froth, and bubble, is that the Tories are
i aot Place, are well nigh mad with impatience to get
theygai, and care not a straw for the country unless
sel are, and
.i
to cut and carve it to suit their own
zhe anPurposes.
Nor is there any stint or measure in
the 'r,guage• So long as the Tories sat, like incubi, on
1
rule • —asurY benches, however despotic might be their
on ,4 811bstallee, they yet had the good sense to put
Poli certain
decency of exterior ; they affected the
%shed gentleman, and could even cut throats with
(10tailitY ; but now the most foul-mouthed ultra-radical
is not go beyond them in grossness of language and
fro:Perance of conduct. They are perfectly frenzied
~ogr the loss of place. In the senate, in the draw-
lietri°°lll, in their periodicals, their disappointment.
4Ys them -
of, , into the most contemptible exhibitions
flan,gar
if they could
Wrath, and it is quite plain that
~hiteh4 way to office, even by wading through Fleet
Ipdthey would not hesitate to avail themselves of it
110
all etegthere are many who think they would like the road
1141,•e better for its lying through a sink, the whole clan
fiticji-g a sort of hog-like predilection for wallowing in
04,,i 7th l.,;(l,loTir)r_er. But with all our previous experience
weakness could do, we never expected
headed g quite so bad as this precious specimen,
the ' The Past Session of Parliament and the
folly State and Prospects of Toryism." Whatever
tt
corm anY individual, or any party, may have
the
bled, it seems from this the Whigs are to bear
the allie• If Mr. Buckingham gives notice, " that
dtipknext Session he proposes to put an end to
'l4re:l,4:less and duelling," or if Colonel Williams de-
atoph intention " to move the instant and entire
Proproage of the distillation of spirits," or if Mr. Bish
Irela:de„l° " transport King, Lords, and Commons to
to ' all these, and many kindred absurdities, are
whaltributed to the Whigs. 'lt would be hard to
tileZeaeritshteorerathtse. knave or fool most predominate in
ttgajoa pother and a most serious, complaint is brought
'lO4
et the liberals, charging them with not having
doh'
atolletigh during the Session to satisfy the legisla-
NeullaPeetite of their opponents. This comes with a
opt the bad grace from a class of men who, through-
Ittly roe whole time, did all that they could to prevent
otrib astlAres from being carried, and who mainly
ter awaylite'' with the Irish Members, to frit-
the ,s the .
, parties whole Session, though the views..
the
„NIA f were totally distinct. Above all, it
ro"eA,lli°-::',lslldence in the Tory writers to tell us that
e--31ires -anted the inclination to carry their own
eeple ha.' When, for the last six months, the very same
theth civerx,heelbe.en stunning us with clamorous boasts of
4t the fling strength of their party, and vaunting
° WI
• •
the lower
113 e t. ligs owed their majorities
that the
b. the Duke forbearance of Sir Robert Peel ; and
I;ltrY n of Wellington could turn out the Mi-
-61115 ‘°lll I:l2Ler he should think proper to resume into
th°ll4l the
e Wt. reigns of government. " Liars
pageem ..g memories," says the proverb ; but
IT of Fraser's scribe does not carry him from
ow Page
,Il writ; 'scarcely even from line to line—of his
glthor " If, observes this writer, " he (Lord
rate b.?) let
its .1111, afterquestion go to sleep, like the Churcl.i-
favo, . a division of more than two to one in
calle '4', it Was reasonsimply because from some inexpli-
thetio ue chose to do so. Want of power was
h case the
• ottont „real motive ; want of will was always at
4 ti-eclaredi_
,The inexplicable reason of one sentence
earl °:10e Want of will in the other.
ri "t how . theft to cons' , ever, be denied the people have some
their, eautionPt‘ain that the Whigs, in the excess of
been red' ion, proceeded somewhat too slowly in
ha(;,,better 10_ o.f. their pledges. It might perhaps have
the cney 00
,r themselves, not less than for others,
rflark . occasions , Without gone at once directly to
to
be le vaio ha suffering themselves to be checked
did
and eooeiliat_l3,e of conciliating those who were not
with upright But on the other handthe~s filch th man , every can-
mtahhrumeesste seebeset,
n Measures
suallowtee tehfe
Reform, difficultiesin
iteimsse,
;strabi 110 t oil
tilsg •
Ins ecamfor but in the highest degree
dangerous, from the un-
11nrefieor glry of
ti
ing
°b
of t.hmee ultra-radicals, and from the
strong hold'iy of the liouSe of Lords, the prin-
Tories. It was soon clear to all

thinking men that, if certain measures were brought up
to the Lords, a most perilous collision would take
place between the two Houses—perilous, that is to the
Lords, against whom the popular cry was, as it still is,
both loud and vehement. 'We do not pretend to know
the actuating motives of the Ministry on this subject,
but of one thing we are certain, that had three or
four of the Bills, principally desired, been carried
through below, the Peerage must have been sacrificed ;
less would not have satisfied the people, already more
than enough exasperated against them, or else the na-
tion must have been left to the mercy of the triumphant
Tories. The latter was by no means the probable half
of the alternative, and, little as some bold spirits may
think of lopping off the peerage at a blow, we must con-
fess ourselves seriously alarmed at the idea of so exten-
sive an amputation. Even if the measure had been
abstractedly good, the present fevered state of the na-
tion would make it infinitely dangerous.
As to the " state and prospects of Toryism," it

will need no very protracted discussion. From this we
learn that the Tories fancy themselves again on the
high. road to power, an illusion natural enough to
their forlorn state, for as the poets tell us, and the
experience of every day confirms their dictum, hope
always grows brighter in proportion to the increasing
darkness of the prospect. At the same time we do
not altogether deny the possibility of their once again
finding themselves in place, for the ultra Radicals, in
hope of the mischief to follow, would no doubt lend
their best aid to elevate them into office ; but their
stay there would be short ; the aura of their real power
has passed away with the divine right of Kings, never
to return, and in a few years only their very
name will be, like the term Jacobite, merely an
echo of the days gone by, a dreamy recollection, over
which a few old crones will ruminate in their chimney
nooks, and a tale for the writers of romance. Won-
derful must be the blindness of the Tories that they
cannot see all this, which is plain enough to every one
except themselves. It is difficult to understand how
any set of men can be so utterly in arrear of the age
in which they live, as to suppose that there is the
slightest chance of the Tories being again allowed to
dispose of the realm at their good pleasure as they
have done, as if the whole land, with the people on it,
were their undoubted property, and men held their
lives and goods but on a lease. The very attempt to
restore such a state of things, if they should be mad
enough to venture on it, would infallibly bring about
a revolution that would sweep them away from the face
of the earth, in defiance of the guns and bayonets of
the military.

To make amends for this Tory trash which we wil-
ling consign ever to the British Scombri, aut quicquid
chartis amicitur ineptis, there is a glorious article,
entitled, " Literature and the Jesuits." Old Chris-
topher North never penned a better ; and that
Regina well knows, with all her bragging, is a
sentence to be proud of. The good sense and good
humour, no less than the intimate knowledge of the
subject displayed in this article, are beyond all praise,
and most willingly would we extract the whole, but as
that from its length is impossible, we will not lessen its
merit to the reader by breaking it up into fragments.
0, si sic omnia ! To be sure, the ingenious rogue is
neither more nor less than a special pleader ; by a
happy obliquity of vision, he squints over the pecca-
dillos of the Jesuits, their grillings, and bone-stretch-
ings, and neck-twistings ; but then he is thoroughly
master of his subject, and deals with it right pleasantly.
There is an odd sort of satisfaction too in being able
to read the eulogy of Ignatius without flinching—a
thing which no Protestant could have done a century
or so gone by, when the old fox's institute was in full
vigour, and his gridiron was heated red hot to broil
heretics pour r amour de Dieu ! But now—the
Heavens be praised, therefore---,,we can admire him, as
we might look at a dead centipede, pickled and stop-
pered up in the surgeon's phial ; or, to state matters
more heroically, " all his good now blazes, all his guilt
lies buried in the grave."
If it were only for the sake of this one article, we
must e'en part in good humour with Regina, and,
that we may do so, we pass over the rest of her
misdoings sub silentio. Farewell, termagant—" endea-
vour thyself to sleep, and leave thy vain bibble-babble."