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ENGLISH FREEMEN AND SPANISH BONDS. A MAN...
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Debate In The Lords' On Italian Affairs....
latter . Lord Xokmanby is peculiarly well ch ; cumstaneed m tins respect . lor several years Ids wife was one of the Ladies in Waiting to her-. ifaj . es . ty ';¦ for a considerable period his son . Comptroller of the Household , a post which he only vacated in order to be appointed Governor of Nova Scotia ; and for many years past his brother , the Won . Col . Sir Charles Phipps , has been Keeper of the Privy Purse and private Secretary to the Queen . It were bare affectation to '" , pretend that under these circumstances , the studied invectives of his lordship can be treated as the mere random talk of an ordinary man . Lord NoKMAKUYis , beyond .-all ' . ¦ comparison , ' - ' the man who lias been most favoured during the present reign ; and whatever may be his faults or foibles , there is no reason to suspect him of the folly or ingratitude of wilfully offending the prejudices or embarrassing the aims of his -illustrious , beiiefactors . After the honours and emoluments he has received from time to time , he could hardly
aiford to do so . He and his have occupied publie stations more or less conspicuous . They have been marked out as the special objects of royal confidence , and they are so still . " It happens , accidentally , ' that the Marquis himself is just now hi want-of a situation ; ' but he has too" long- been in the habit . of living at the public charge to door sayanything calculated to impede-the realization once more of his more ' noble ambition . Experience proves that he , above all men in the realm , understands the . business he 1 ms so long pursued ; and as , from the meek and mitigated tone with which his attacks are deprecated , instead of being repelled * by ^ Ministers , there is no liopfe of their ceasing , we think it probable that this patriot peer may soon be once more provided foist the cost of the nation .
Until , however , Lord Koioianby ' s anti-Italian mouth shall be stopped , we should be glad that some means were provided for meeting his scandalous misrepresentations of fact , from time . to time , as they are made , and on the spot . It will never do to allow scenes ' like thai of last Tuesday evening to be enacted in the Upper-House . If Lord Gkanville is not acquainted with what has been taking place in Italy during the last twelve months sufficiently to contradict offhand thecalumnious allegations of Lord Norman by , and if Lord Wobehouse be not capable of grappling with a sham ease he persists , night after night , ill presenting , surely some meniber of a . Cabinet of sixteen , or of a Government that boasts of its red-tape ability , might be crammed
for the purpose , and set up to obliterate the defamatory traces of the ex-ambassador ' s harangues . It is hardly decent to leave the vindication qf a Govermaent like that . of'Sardinia , with which we profess to be on terms of intimacy and friendship , to the loose aid of an amicua curire like Lord CirAXRlcAiiDE , —always supposing that the policy of ministers is , and is really meant to be , steadily consistent with the liberal professions so often made by its chiefs . We annex the condition , we own , not without some misgivings . In the course of his speech on Tuesday last , the Lord President of the Councilvolunteered an admission , worth more to the Court of Vienna than all the anonymous statements endorsed by Lord Nokmanby . Lord Gbanville assured his Conservative opponent , that in the interviews the Marquis LaJatico in
( Envoy of the Tuscan Provisional Government ) had had November last with Lord John Russell , he had been repeatedly urged on the part of our Government to advise his countrymen to Recall the Grand Duke to Florence ! From the papers just presented to Parliament , it appears that at the , period in question Napoleon TCI . was vehemently pressing the sa'mo counsel on the Italians ; and we presume * that oxir ministers would seek their , justification for giving- confidential advice so contrary to their own general professions , and so adverse to general English feeling , by dwelling ou the expediency of maintaining- a policy of unison in , all things with Fiance . We must say , however , that in , this instance we thintc they have erred deplorably ; and that it is fortunate for them the Tuscans had the self-respect and courage to reject their evil counsels .
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252 The Leader and Saturday Analyst . J Feb . IS , I 860
English Freemen And Spanish Bonds. A Man...
ENGLISH FREEMEN AND SPANISH BONDS . A MAN never looks so deeply injured as when lie hns just run against somebody in a crowded supper-room . If ho has upset the ice that you lire carrying trippingly to a lady still radiant from the last waltz , ho , if possible , looks still more hurt . It is a trick of our innate selfishness , a small development of tho old saying of tho wiso historian , " that we hate those we have injurqcl . " Wily human nature , never owning itself in the wrong ,
and yet afvnirl it maybe for once ¦ wring , thus craftily attempts to throw the bhuno upon the innocent . Hence it is that when your omniTbna driver nearly ' grinds a careless doctor ' s boy to powder at Regent ' s Circus , he nt once swears at him violently , and gently double-thongs him with his chariot whip in order to avert the many-tongued blame that might otherwiso assail tho inn potuous and tyrannical driver of the " Royal Blue , " It is these small daily experiences , and such ns those , thnt load us to indeed
confess , in the thoughtful words of the sagacious and inimitable Yorkshire educator of young . gentlemen— -we . refer to Mr . SojLEEits—that " though natur is an ' ol y one , nature ' s a ruin . W . ' . - ' "' . ¦ '¦ . ' ¦ ' . :: ¦ ¦ " . ¦ ' . " . - ¦ ¦ ; ' ' . ' ' : " ' . ' . ' , ¦ ' . ' ¦ The recent irritation manifested in Spainagainst England leads us to these reflectionson ingratitude in -general . We long ago'heard from . Shakespeake , who is a good authority iu heart disease , that " The lender losefch both his gold and friend "
but we scarcely expected to find a country so shameless as to profess with its million tongues its hatred of the generous people who , years ago , so rashly risked their money to 'help ¦ ' them , out of the gory slough of civil war and the feverous , marsh of hopeless bankruptcy . No one , however , who has lived in the world of trade but is well aware of the angry and injured way in which even the most honest men get in the habit of talking of their creditors- —how they speak of them with a certain lnoumful nialignity , as if they , were their relentless persecutors , who were working out some Corsican retribution . Anv one who has ever visited a prison and talked
to prisoners knows well how surprised one feels at each and all telling you , with the Utmost earnestness , that they are all in for " nothing " —shut up by a cruel and oppressing world . A . set of more injured men , too , than those that drive racket balls about the monastic quadrangle of the Bench , who draw faces of the " " - bailiffs , HAAivrAN and Lazakus , on the scmalid walls of the Cursitor-street spongin " -house , or who stare through the orangerusted'bars of the dens . of "VVhitecrOss Street , are not to be found in all the world , except , perhaps , in some rice- swamp of Caroliuxu or among the hattened-down slave cargo of some hard-pressed slaver off the coast of Guinea / . Alas ! as some great poet
said"The workl knows nothing of its wisest men . ' There cannot be ; a doubt that Bedlam contains some of our greatest poets and painters , the Bench so ' nie of our most ' versatile nuancialists , and tYliitecross Street so . Jne of our most daring projectors- —men who would tunnel the Andes , just as yoiL ¦ would run a taster into a Stilton cheese , and cut isthmuses in two just as you would snap a L / e ' j \ Ian ' s biscuit : but so the mad world avill have it . Let it in the meantime console these brave but unfortunate spirits , that , in the .-words of one of the tragic poet ' s'finest outbursts of passion , generally recited on the stage by a very pale ' lean mail hi . Hessian . boots , —¦
"There is another and a better world . " A £ < miie Duck of great experience on the Stock -Exchangebetween ourselves , wexnay say a very huiie duck— sympathetically indignant at the unjust contumely cast on Spain ( sis if it was really a second Pennsylvania , ) has explained to us the whole afiiiir of the Spanish loans , Vhieli lias so filled us with a sejise of the softness of Oastilian soap and the magnanimity ' of Iberian chivalry , that we feel ready to exclaim with witty Smith ( Sid nicy of that ilk ) , " AVould Ave were altogether such as these men arc , saving these bonds . " Our special Lame . Duck has obtained tho following accurate particulars . froin the persecuted gentlemen with
whom every Sunday morning he comes over from Boulogne Jor y , clay ' s recreation ; he tells us eii passant that the patriotism < lia > - playcd by those noble exiles at the sight of the white cliits of their native country , would , draw tears from any -whose sea-sickness would eiiuhle him to dispijiy such generous emotion . Our Lame Duck , who knows the Continent well , Ueposeth ( and you must treat hiin as a Spanish advocate ) that the finances of Spain boing . brought down to the very edge of the bottomh' * s V . ¦ - P . 1 1 , I'Ml ¦ ¦ ¦ M . cut civil
pit by seven years' 'desolating Kilkenny- war—a war as cruel as useless ; and by the preceding ¦ reign , which had been witness of the French invasion and tho loss of the Spanish colonies , was unabl « for 'eleven yenva-to pay the interest ou Jier / lebts contracted in 1831 , which , she lmd paid till 1 S 10 witl ] i u n becoming regularity ,-of which pur friendly Laino J > uck speaks witli more than due pride , lu 1851 , - hoping , wo suppose , to seoure fresh loans , by paying tho old ones , Spain lecoiunicnced to pay interest .
Pay ln f ' uu ah (» could not , and did not ; ibr the arrears of inteivtft by tliis tiinw exceeded the capital ; but , with true Al AC . ' AwnKit spirit , the great country at Jasfcnmdo an " arnuigcmcnt , " generally a quiet name for cheating . She capitalised the amount of iutcreHt unpaid , giving in exchange for the despised coupons oilier stock bearing a gradually increasing interest , which has been , our Lame Duck says— " proud of his port , ( telitmco in his eye "¦—t ' vci * since punctually paid . By a law of August 1 , 1 . 851 . —of true MacaAVivkii griiutlciir of design , and worthy of a . Tupjtkii bankruiit or Colonel Fauou Jnmself—upwards of a hundred dillerent khulu of slock , lvpresenting one hundwd and fifty millions , wen ; . ou that day converted into three clnsses of paper—consolidated , DiiFiOHiti ci ) , nn'd redeemable . Of these , three tho second was , Laniu Duck
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 18, 1860, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18021860/page/4/
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