Star.
London, England, 1830-09-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS.

CODIBETT'II RZOISTILIL—In the EDlWlttriteill REVIEW, put..
Bated in July last, there is a regular Manifesto against the Prince ui
Waterloo, whom we call the Duke of Wellington, and whom wt w.il
DOW so call, because these unmannerly Scotchmen have so called him in
the extract that I am about to make from this book, the object of whit?.
manifestly is to put him out of his place, and his creatures out of their
emoluments, and to put some one into his place, who will give those
emoluments to them, instead of their being given to the present swarm.
This Review, as it is called, was originally established for place-hunt-
ing purpose. It was • battery erected by one HORNER, by
BROUGUAY, by JEvoithY, and a whole band, to p!sy upon the men
in high office, in such a way as to make a breach, through which they
might get into the paradise of Parliament and place, enclosed by the
rampart of power. Houma (now dead) and BROM:UMW soon got
into Parliament. There he has been snug ever since, and always for
what is called a rotten borough. He has now got a brother in for the
same sort of place; and though he is in for what Is called the county of
York, he is, in fact, no more the representative of the people uf that
fine county than he is of the people of China. He was, by consent, el.-
press consent, of the aristocracy, voted into the seat by about 2,000
men, and the county contains 300,000 men above twenty-one years of
age JEFFREY' has a plats, being what is called Dean of Facially.
Misty others have pickings; but they want more. '4 Gremr' is
their great e and they are now making a grand push for
gratification. This crew, from their outset, fixed their eyes upon the
Want Boroughasongers, as being most likely to favour their views.
They have, therefore, always been "Winos." They started in 1805,
just when Pitt had returned to power, bowed down by the shameful
transactions of Melville end himself, which had been brought to light
by the vengeful feelings of the Addington. The Pitt faction was tar-
nished and weak; the receipts of the Lxchequer were then quite enor-
mous, and this Scotch crew stood, like raw-boned dogs, moving their
jaws, and their mouths watering at the sight. Now and then one of
them came up to take a survey of the thing : his report of what be lirtl
seen sharpened the appetites of the pack of gaunt expectants, and the
HOWL from the Nwth was as loud and terrific to us of the South, as
that 'of the wolves, when, in time of snow, they come pouring down
from the Alps or the Pyrennees upon the devoted fleecy inhabitants of
the fields and the folds in the valleys ! Good GOD ! I never shall
forget It ! I, as the pages of the Register will show, raised my feeble
voice against the threatened ferocious invasion ; but, alas 1 what was
my single voice ! The great body of the people seemed as if spell.
bound, staring at each other, and, instead of preparing for resistance,
waiting patiently, each hoping, apparently, that he should be devoured
last !To the surprise of every-body Pitt rallied: the dread of being
devoured by this Northern crew made even cold friends zealous in his
support; but, poor fellow, amidst the worryings of 1803 and 1804, he
had, the said, taken to the fatal practice of Mrs. lioniface. At any
rate, in January 1806, he DIED ! Dreadful day for us in the South !
The death was sudden, and sudden were the consequences! By every
coach came a load of placohunters from the North. But, coaches !
What were coaches ! Berwiek smack after Berwick smack
came hastening round into the Thames. Luckily, steam.
navigation had not then been discovered ' • for, even without
that, the swarms about Whitehall and Downing.street ; the
crowds of gaunt and impudent fellows, strutting about a ale
red hair, freckled skins, and high cheek bones were truly frightful ; at:d
though the coalesced Whigs and Grenvilles and Adding:was (amongst
which latter was the elder Ilobliouse) were ousted at the end of fourteen
months, the Scotch place-hunters had nestled themselves in, in such
great numbers, and had taken such fast hold, that they have held the
greater part oldie immense emoluments ever since. The Irish are ROO
sharing with theta ; and the article, on which I am about to ointment.
is intended principally to get the whole into their hands by partly cou.r.
ing and partly terrifying PEEL to abandon the Duke, and to join the
Winos ! Now, mark, my friends : the object of the WOLVES (Scotch
place-hunten) is to get ALL the emoluments into their hands ; the
Whig borough:swayers are their tools; and they think, that if they eau
bring over PEEL, who, bad as he is, is the Duke's best Witty, they
shall oust the Duke, and he able to fall upon us, their defencelcsa prey !
I know you will say: " Why ! do the wolves think that the people
have nothing to say in this matter! Do they really think that things
are going to remain in this state" ! They do: their eagerness to get at
our property blinds them to every thing but that: like 'their nametape,
which, when they come howling down nom the snow-covered nintuaa.ns.
forget all about the stalokftit dogs and armed sheph:rde ! They will
now find England not 'gat it tear in WOG: but I shall have to ape*
of that by and by. In the meanwnile, please to keep in view the object
of the 11 olves, as I have described Italian.
This" Review" is, indeed, no such thing: it is a periodical set ui
essays, the object of which is to get labile money into the pock( is of
the writers. The article in question it called a review of a pamphlet
called " The eoutalty urithent a government;" thLt is to say, a thing
seethes bythe same faction and tor the same purpose. Only one little
extract is made from this pamphlet, and that inertly as an souse.
I now come to their regular Martivesro against the Duke. Tiny
charge him with being unpin? his oafs; they say that he has only
Pea to prop him ; that it Pear quit him, he must go out or let them in
for a snore; they wheedle Peel to leave him and to joie than; thee
menace him if he adhere to the Duke ; they make a grand display o the
party that they shall have; and they confidenely anticipate the Duke's
overthrow. But, boiling with rage at seeing the fold shut against their
merciless jaws, the Whigs will seek revenge ; and they will, it' they find
the Duke opposed to REFORM, be clamorous for it, being convinced
that it will not be tarried. As far as this goes, they will have the
people at their butt ; the distresses oftlie country are great ; they will
and must be greater and greater ; the stack-jolibing ministry in France
will not be able to make the National Guard pay the taxes to defray
the expenses' of the debt ; the funding, and cheating, and monopolising,
and extorting systems are going to pieces everywhere ; this thing cannot
stand if that of France go to pieces; the accursed oligarchy cannot out.
live this fraudulent system, upon which death has its cold hand; and
thus difficulties of all sorts arc assailing the THING.

At Mons, says the same letter, all the population had been
overcome by the force donna.
MitltTitio ON KZNYINGTON CONNION.—Th• different
mods leading to Kennington Comoson,were thronged by perms an Lad/
as ten o'climit. At twelve, the crowd of spectators on the mot was
maim A large placard was exhibited to this effect `4 The corrup-
tion which prevails in this country, loudly proclaims the necessity, of
an entire and radical ream t and it is the duty of every man to use
every means in his power to obtain it." Bills were likewise circulated,
calling **people to leek to Paris. Mr. Hass arrived in a Os, with
a large Wallowed sag, having as 1t..." Paris for ever!" We left
Mr. HUNT at half past two o'clock, exhorting the people, and vs.
faring to the example of the Parisians.

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