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cattering it for
Now.

all " literary eminence.'
who do you thick has had the good fortune to
hundred a veer on account of his Zr

lets in

s pleas

the way, will be very ill-used if he
ar of sorneting, to his advantage," after such a
he one I have to record) bat of all others Silk
Now, what has- Silk Buckingham done to
Icly authoresses

,lotJosepli Act
does n

wriere seve

earn £2OO a year, in a count
are far from well off, and just at a time when he has suc
ceeded in getting £4OO a-year from the East India Com-
pany ? The job is perfectly scandalous, and Lord John
use fn giving " so much for
.sting in the last degree
and a

n King Dick

Is it not dis

Buckingham !
that Frances
worth every other living woman that can jingle a rhyme,
should have £2O a-year by the grace of Lady Peel, and
£2OO a-year is given to such a paper-stainer as Silk
Buckingham ? I have too ;north regard to your health to
ask you to read his " America," for I do not wish to throw
application should have

to a ss

got the famous
Let us, hose

This is too bad !"

)O fast

Why, Colonel Torrens for his great eminence in political
economy. Now, if Colonel Torrens wants the money,
let him have it; or, if it is better liked, make him Gover-
nor of " Coventry Island," like the Governors of certain
Southern Islands, sent out by the Whigs, who see the
sun once in six months, and the face of a Christian per-

baps on

in s►x years

t d() not

lead the rising

generation into the belief that Colonel Torrens is " emi:
nent" for anything but intolerable prosing. Lord John
Russell's literary pension list, however, will afford one
advantage. It will be an index expurgatorius for all
chroniclers of scholars and men of ability, and a table of
contents for a new Dunciad.

Talking of the Dunciad, I shall " kill two birds with one
stone," by mentioning the reviewer for the Times, and
Mr. Thomas Babington Macaulay. The said reviewer
may be described as an Irish friend of mine described a
great poet, "poeta" said he, "nascitur non fit, and -s
not fit." The reviewer is a well known compiler of a

peerage
been laying it very thick of la

mimonly called Eadd-decirno ; and he has
on the stout Scotch-
s writtLn what the

an lees
call a "
from the
content

green urnbre

History of E

which he chooses to
It appears, however,

Times, that

..,.., in the Macaulay, not
th printing his verbose and commonplace
a sct of performances not nearly so good as
—noraneous harangues at the

Counsellor Philip
criminal bar, in imitation of which they seem to hav_
been written)—has suggested to the Longmans to bring
them out at a shilling a number. Now did Mr. Macau-
ley, in his Warren Hastings so published, retract the
slanders on Sir Elijh Impey, with which that " essay"
teemed ' • and of which Mr. Impey, the son of Sir Elijah,
convicted him in an able and agreeable book—a book
of Mr. Macaulay's rhapsodies, "rich" as

s exten

worth t wen

they are in truly " barbaric pearls."
His Holiness the Pope, if he possesses, as is probable,
true information as to what is coming in France, and by
consequence in Europe, must apprehend anything but
1. It appears from many anecdotes that
excessive timidif

pleasant events

he is a man
tutional disc

.se, that h

trea cher:

amounting to a consti-
:lke sudden fancies of

rkabie, ei

compan

r. consideiirg tli

eep), and be for days

food being

ed, or of conspiracies to seiz

,at, in fact, he is

bout as 1

,us of hi

latter emperors, and fancies his

is per-

tit of fear proposed to
rse to comfort the eyes of the faith-
perhaps.,- nected, to leave

fiil in thatqu

out in liver:

great virtu,

year to drop tt
the red, its sli
Holiness wou

3ffie of the

Pius has it. his