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, ENGLISH. FREEMEN ANJ> SPANISH BONDS.
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latter Lord Noiimaxby is . peculiarly well circumstanced m tins respect . For several years Ms wife was one of the Ladies in Waiting to her iVlajesty ; for a considerable period life , son was Comptroller o ? the " Household , a post which lie ' only vacated in order to be appointed Governor of Nova Scotia ; and for many years-past his brother , the Hon . Col . Sir Chart . es Phtpps , has been Keeper of the Privy Purse ami 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 l ? voiOf aIj-by is , beyond alicomparison , the man who has been most favoured during the present reign ; and whatever may be his faults or fables , there is no reason to suspect Mm of the folly or ingratitude of . wilfully- . ' offending the prejudices or embarrassing the aims of his illustrious benefactors . After the honours and emoluments he lias received from time to . time , he could hardly
afford to dp so . He and his have occupied public stations more or less . conspicuous . They have been marked out as the special objects of royal confidence * and they are so still . It happens , accidental ] v , ' that the Marquis himself is just now in want of a situation ; ' but he has top long been in the habiKof living at the public charge to door say anything calculated to impede the reahzatkm once more of his more * noble ambition . Experience proves that he , above all men in the realui > understands the business he lias so long pursued ; and as , from tlie meek and mitigated tone with which his attacks are deprecated , instead of being repelled , by Ministers , there is no hope of their eeasing ,. we think it probable that this patriot peer may soon be once more provided for at the cost of the nation . _;; ¦ '
Until , however , Lord Norm a > By ' 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 that of last Tuesday evening to be enacted in the Upper House . If Lord Gkakville is not acquainted with what has been taking place in Italy during the last twelve months sufficiently to contradict offhand the calumnious allegations of Lord Norm an by , and if Lord ; Wodehotjse be not capable of grappling . with a sham case he persists , night after night , in Cabinet of sixteen of
preseiiting ; surely some member of a , or a Government that boasts of its red-tape ability , might be crammed for the purpose * and set lip to obliterate the defamatory traces of the ex-ambassador ' s harangues . It is hardly decent to leave the vindication of a Government like that of Sardinia , with which we profess to . be on terms of intimacy and friendship , to tlie loose aid of an arnicas cvr ' ue like Lord Clanricakde , —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 Council volunteered an admission , worth more
to the Court of Vienna than all the anonymous statements endorsed by Lord Normanby . Lord Givanvjlle assured his Conservative opponent , . that in the interviews the Marquis La . tatico ( Envoy of the Tuscan Provisional Government ) had had in November last with Lord John IIusseil , he had ; been repeatedly ur ^ edon . the port of our Government to advise ^ his countrymen to ° recaU the Grand Puke to Florence ! Prom' the papers just presented to Parliament , it appears that at the period in question the counsel
Napoleon TIL was vehemently pressing same , on the Italians ; and we presume that our ministers would seek their justification for giving confidential advice so contrary to 1 ; heir own general professions , and so adverse to general English fpeling , by dwelling on the expediency of maintaining a policy ot unison iii all things with Prance . We must say , howeve , r , ' that in this instance we think they have erred deplorably ; and that it is fortunate for them the Tuscans had the" self-respect and oourago t ' o reject their evil counsels . .
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Jk MAIN never Iooks so deeply injured us , wneu » a nua j /\ , run ngninsfc somebody in a crowded supper-room . Tf ho lias upset the ice that you lire carrying trippingly to a huly still * ndiant from the lost waltz , ho , if possible , looks still more hurt . It is a . trick of our innate selfishness , u small development of tho 6 ld saying of tho wise historian , " that wo hnto those wo hnro f in the
injured . " Wily lmnuin nnturo , never owning itsel wrong , and yet afraid i ' t jnny bo for oneo erring , thus craftily attempts to throw tho blnmo upon tho innocent . Hence it is-that when your Omnibus , driver nearly grinds a cm-olcas doctor ' s boy to powder ht' Regent ' s Circus , ho nt onoe swears at him violently , and gently double-thongs him with his ohiuiot whip in order to avert the Ynany-tong'Ued . blame tlinfc might otherwise assail tho inipetuons and tyrannical driver of tho " Royal Bltto . " It is these femnH ¦ dnily experiences , and such na these , that lend us to indeed
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confess , in the thoughtful words of the sagacious and inimitable Yorkshire educator of young gentlemen—we refer to Mr . Squeeks — that '' though natur is an ' oly one , nature * * a rhtit The recent irritation manifested . in Spain against England leads us to these reflections ou ingratitude in general . We long a-a o ' heard from ShakesIpeake , who is a good authority in heart disease , that The lender loseth both Ms gold and friend , " but we scarcely expected to find a country ; so shameless as to profess with its .: hxillion 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 winch even the most honest men got in the habitof talking of their creditors—how ' they speak of them with a . certain mournful malignity , as if they were their relentless persecutors , who were working out some Corsican retribution . Any 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 , th . it they are all in .
' ' 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 " " - bailifts , ' . Ha am an and La ^ auus , on the -stpialid ... walls , of the Cursitor-street sponging-house , or who stare through the orangerusted bars of the dens of Whitecross Street , are not to be found in all the world , except , perhaps , in some riee swamp of Carolina , or among the battened-downslave cargo of some hard-pressed slaver off the coast of Guinea . Alas ! as some great poet
said" The -ivorltl Ijiigws nothing of its . -wisest meii . ' There cannot be a doubt that Bedlam contains some of our greatest poets and painters , the Bench some of our" most versatile niiancialidts , ami Whitecross Street some of our most daring projectors- —men ; Avho Avonld tunnel the Aud ^ s , just as you would run . a . taster . iuio a Stilton cheese , and cut" isthmuses in _ two just as you would snap a Le'Man ' s biscuit : but so the mad world will 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 man in Hessian boots , —
'' There is another and a bitter world . A Lame Duck of great-. experience on the Stock _ Exchange- — between ; ourselves , we may say a very li \ n \ e duck—sympathetically indignant at the -unjust , contumely cast on . !> piiiu . ( as- if it was really a second Pennsylvania , ) has explained toxis the whole nflak of the Spanish loans , which has . so tilled us with a sense of the softness of Castilian soap and the magnanimity of Iberian chivalry , that we feel ready to exclaim with witty Smith ( Sipn kv of that ilk ) , '" Would . we were altogether such as these lhen-tms saving these bonds . " Our special Lame Duck has obtained the follpwing accurate particulars from the persecuted gentlemen . ' with
whom every Sunday morning ) w conies over from JBoulogne Jot a-day ' s recreation ; he tells us eti pa-vsant that the patriotism displayed by those noble exiles at the sight of tlie white cliils ot tlieir native country , would draw tears IVoni nny whos << sea-siokness wpuld oijable hiui to display suck generous emotion . Our Lame Duek , who knows the Continent well , tleposeth ( and you must treat him as a Spanish ¦ jujvocate' ) that tlie finances ot ^ pain being brought down to the very edge of the bottomlccs t civil
pit by seven years' desolating Kilkenny-ea war —a war nr > cruel as useless '; and b y the prcced-ing ruigii , which hud libcu witness of the' French invasion xwul the loss of the- Spanish colonies ,, was unable for eleven ye < irs to pay the interest ou her debts contracted in 1 « 31 , which she had paid till 1810 with a becoming regularity , of which our frwndly Linne . Duek speaks with more than due pride . In 1851 , hoping , we suppose , to secure fresh loans by paying the old ones , Spain leconinienced to pay interest .
Pay hrfull shi ! could not , and did not , for tiw arrears of uuenst by tills time exceeded the etipital j but , with tnio Maiiawjiku . spirit , thegrenh country at histnuule . hn " nvrniigeiuent ; , " generally n quiet nnmo for cheating . She otipitnlised tho amount of intcrcsi unpnid , giving in exchange for the despised coupons other stork hairing a gradually increasing interest , wliicli hna . been , our Luinu Duek says— " proud of his port , delianyo in his eyo "—cvim since punctually paid .
By a law of . August 1 , 1851—of time Mac a wnv . it grinuleYir of ( Wgn , nnd worthy * of & JunrTjait bniiknipt or Colom I Fatjgu himaelC—upwards of a hundred ( liH ' eivnt kituls of slock , representing onq hundred and fifty millions , were on that day converted into three classes of puper—eonsoliduU . 'ii , ^ . lO t ' ijitnKU , nnd rcdcomttblc . Of these fchreo tho . second wns , Lame Duek
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T * 1 ? The header and Saturday Analyst . ( Feb . IS , 1800
, English. Freemen Anj≫ Spanish Bonds.
! ENGLISH . FREEMEN ANJ > SPANISH BONDS .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 18, 1860, page 152, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2334/page/4/
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