Washington sentinel., 1855-01-09

for the preservation Of the Kings English,
complains, among other structures on the an
nual message of President Pierce, that that
document lis not very correct in its language"
1t may amuse our readers to place in contrast
with the message the recent speech of the
Queen, which, according to that pungent fel-
low, Punch, has actually caused the cannonized
bones of William Cobbett to burst their cere-
ments, and demonstrate against snch~ murder
GUS designs upon his native language:
From the London Punch.
Ghost OF Cobbett to Aberdeen.
"Aberdeen, just look here, will you? have
been reading your speech. When say your
speech, I mean that which you concocted, and
which Chanworth, your precious Chancellor,
presented to the Queen, that she might read it
to the Lords, Commons, Women, and Report
ers, on Tuesday last. The Queen, of course,
had nothing to do with the composition; and
though you, with your natural impudence, will
accuse me of disrespect to her, you knoU that
mean nothing Of the kind. am writing to
you, and about you, Old Woman.
"You never had SO good an opportunity Of
writing speech in which strong things could
might have blown trumpet, and have set
English blood in fame with the music. You
have preferred to speak upon penny whistle,
and to speak ont of tune. The speech is the
very worst that ever was delivered However,
/ shall confne myself to q notice of its bad
grammar.
"You cannot get through the first line with
out Scotch null.
"Ihave called you together at this UNUSUAL
period Of the gear!
"What do you mean by. that, eh? Why is
the period Of the year unusual? Is it unusual
to have winter, or to have December, or to have
q twelfth of December? The periods not un-
usual. What suppose you meant was, that
it is unusual for Parliament to meet in De-
cember. Then why could you not say SO?
Why not have written, 'The period (slipslop)
at which have called you together Ia vulgar
phrase) is an unusual one.'
Well, you 60 on
:" That BY your assistance I may take such
measures With your assistance] 'as sciW en-
able me to prosecute the great ioar IN schich sce
are engaged Nth the utmost pigor'
"We are not engaged in the war with the
utmost vigor. What you mean is, that you
want measures by means of which the war may
be prosecuted with the utmost vigor, not that
you do, but you wished Queen VICTORIA to say
that you do. Then why not write down for
her what you meant?"
al cannot doubt that you share my concic-
tion Of the necessity Of sparing no effort to aug
ment my forces nOao engaged IN the Cflmed.'
"This is not ungrammatical but weaker,
sloppier phrase for the description of strong
act was never devised. But you cannot long
adhere even to such English as that
r. -
writing-why not have said, which my soldiers
have nader sdnd the victories they hare Oh
tanned are not e1ceeded IN the brightest pages OF
history
"How can exertions and victories be exceed
ed in pages? Exertions (you had better have
made few are the acts Of men, pages are pa
per, and it is sheer slipslop that brings them
together, as if they were things of the same
nature. What you meant was that 9 the
brightest pages minerva Press 'of history
record nothing exceeding in merit and glory
the exertions,' &c.
" The hearty and efficient cooperation o He
brape troops Of my ally, the Emperor Of The
French, the glory dc.
"Co-operation with whom or what? Do you
mean that the troops co-operated with each
other? Of course they did, but do you not
mean that But you do not say with whom
they co-operated. Why not have said that they
co-operated with 'my forces2' Because you
write like Lord, that is to say abominably.
But this cooperation with nobody
90 Cannot fail to cement still more closely
THAN what 2 The union phich happily subsists
betpeen the t,co countries [what two?I
"Slipslop again! Do you know what ce-
ment is? Or do you know what union is
A union means an accomplished fact, to use
Gallcian jargon. How can more cement be
used after a union? My bricklayer's appren-
tice could teach you better.
al hare also concluded treaty piM Amer
icd, by which SUBJECTS Of long and difficult
discussion haze been adjusted
"Even an American would have written
better English. Adjust subjectl QUEs-
TIoSs, you meant presume.
"Itrust that other matters [mean again, of
great INTEREST and importance 10 THE general
icelfdre piH not be neglected.
Interest to the general welfaye / do not
entirely approve Of fogging, i strongly disap-
prove of fogging women (your friend and ally
the Austrian, thinks differently and l should
shudder to fog an old woman. So you are
safe. But such sentence ought to ensure to
lad of fourteen, whipping which would
make even your House of Lords cushion no
easy seat Subjects (again) of interest to the
general welfare 7
"Now, Aberdeen, do not, with your impu,
dence, say that find fault for the sake of find
ing fault, can praise when people deserve
praise. The last paragraph in your speech is
very decent, and believe that Billy Gladstone
wrote it. The statement that Parliament ex-
hibits the example of united people would be
rubbish but for it's clever subtlety, which im-
plies IA lie) that Parliament represents the
people. The last sentence is vulgarly clumsy
thus and the trust having no connection
But the sentiment is unexceptionable, SO
quote the passage;
al feel assured that in tie monaentous con-
test IN ,ohich zoe are engaged you ,ciU erhi6t to
the ioorid the example Of united people. Thus
shaH zoe obtain The respect Of Other nations, and
mag trust that By the blessing Of God zoe shall
bring the ,car to a successful termination
"I trust that we shall. But we shall not
while the country tolerates you as Prime
Minister.
al remain, Aberdeen,
HYouro dierespocff,lIr