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    person , not by tetter , * and least of all thro me . Places in religion and honour are saleable with us ; that is to say , preferment in the church and in the

    army . But for any place or preferment in diplomacy you must be registered soon after your baptism ; and be your abilities great or little , you must take your turn . This is

    the system established by Lord Vicount Castlereagh ; and there has always been a tacit convention between this party and their opponents , that whatever card turn up , you must follow

    the next ; that is , the list must hold good * Our government is hereditary , and , to be consistent , our Lords and Masters , as well as our King must be so too . Men of genius , who

    might do honour to the country , and men of fortune , who might relieve it in its expenditure are cast aside , in order to give ignorant adventurers , and importunate beggars ,

    appointments , as representatives of royalty . When royalty is thus represented , who in his senses can much respect it ? Bitter thought ! It throws truth and reason quite to the side of those troublesome and restless men

    who ought to have none of ( either . I anji --alarmed at all changes ; but if aijy . ' change at sail is to take placey I would

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    gladly seje in Italy- one sole representative , of His Britannic Maj esty : a man of fortune , of firmness , of clear-sightedness , and of integrity . Surely there are some such left : one will

    do : but we seem to be as much afraid of finding him , as of finding a tiger in the islands of the Ganges . I do not deny that , in regard to the abilities , you are as capable of the office as any British Minister on the Continent . I verily believe

    you are as conscientious as most of them , and that , to use your own expression , you would do the thing as handsomely and as reasonably as the best , having been used to drive hard

    bargains , and to deal with acuter blades than old women priests , pheasant-shooting Kings and Jiligreef Highnesses . And I should think too that you always knew your man

    before you coped with him , had not you after a year ' s acquaintance , taken me for one who would barter in places like a borough monger . I am offended at this , I confess it ; but

    this is not the worst offence . Ought I to be the confident of such feelings as you avow ? ought I to be invited to partake in them ? I have ; read ; in the Bible , while in England , the words man bqrn of a woman . I do not remember the rest , . ¦ if

    K ^ i * hislelter ' is not found . It probably was' written ^ sobn afte ^ r the preceding , at which Mr Hornfray seems to have been indignant , and kept his silence , until he was requested to enter into and promote a very disagreeable and ( it seems ) illicit megociatioii * . f Very indecorous expressions I Filagree means a thread of gold or silver , or a ishred of paper , turned round a finger or a pin for fancy-work ; fit a grc * #

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    332 High and Low Life m Italy

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1837, page 332, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1837/page/36/