Liston,
and the Prince Regent together.
[3] Mr. Fudge and his friends ought to go by this name--as the man who,
some years since, saved the late Right Hon. George Rose from drowning, was
ever after called _Salvator Rosa_.
[4] His Lordship, during one of the busiest periods of his Ministerial
career, took lessons three times a week from a celebrated music-master, in
glee-singing.
[5] How amply these two propensities of the Noble Lord would have been
gratified among that ancient people of Etruria, who, as Aristotle tells
us, used to whip their slaves once a year to the sound of flutes!
[6] The rapidity of this Noble Lord's transformation, at the same instant,
into a Lord of the Bed-chamber and an opponent of the Catholic Claims, was
truly miraculous.
[7] _Turn instantly_--a frequent direction in music-books.
[8] The Irish diminutive of _Squire_.
LETTER VII.
FROM PHELIM CONNOR TO--.
Before we sketch the Present--let us cast
A few, short, rapid glances to the Past.
When he, who had defied all Europe's strength,
Beneath his own weak rashness sunk at length;--
When, loosed as if by magic from a chain
That seemed like Fate's the world was free again,
And Europe saw, rejoicing in the sight,
The cause of Kings, _for once_, the cause of Right;--
Then was, indeed, an hour of joy to those
Who sighed for justice--liberty--repose,
And hoped the fall of _one_ great vulture's nest
Would ring its warning round, and scare the rest.
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