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    Ve silly Whigs ! ye Wolft Ml ^ Wftf heWs , thd { lgtf « # ptitlic are craving fpr it , and Messrs . JRoake and "ty ^ rty ' s coxxti ^ t periodically groans Ifnth it ; thjbugh tlie penny ispaid & £ p #$ > er atttj letter-press not reaching a tune of the cost of your owivet * ybtir rival ' s ' Penny Magazine . ' The penny politicians are * $ t to b ^ satisfied at your hakds ^ but Sir Robert consents to ^ atei * to ihein . Unforeseen gratification ! To whom ? Is it not so toy&b , most

    thinking public ? Then I am sure it is so to tite publisher ahd to the vendors to boat at a thousand shops arid stalls ., io Itawkers on trot and stationary , knights of the broad haiid-bill ^ atfct eke to one else : yea , were the trig Ellenborough ' s tettijples' atttl' jperiGranium to lose their crispea tresses , ye would See tfc& khEek and chin nourish the well-saved honours of long hair ; ^| uj 'Kel can - not readh the unstamped politician in columns devqteA j ^ all the newest lies , he therefore consents to lie alone :

    » * and still the wonder grew , That one small head'

    I forget the termination of Goldsmith ' s couplet ; but Ve % us see what fills the wondrous thing . There may be a secret ingredient or two in Morrison ' s pills , but in Wellington ' s Peels we have aU divulged : so saleable a nostrum will never cease , till , jb y ita administration , a sound constitution has been broken -up * # nd an income destined for a better market has been consumed in this quackery .

    But it cannot be so * The Baronet cannot be aware of his po * siti $ fi : he has not an idea of the base purposes to which he is put by a faction ; he relies upon their having supplied him with the full details fora speech of numbers ( arithmetical ) ; he whs told , forsooth , that they had displayed all the points of their case , but they have only given him half the facts , and they have over * whelmed him with irrelevant particulars ; they have fairl y bothered him , and he , simple man , knows not hpw vast a

    multitude are admitted to see and consider his folly at the small price of twopence . By the admissions of his speech , the number of Protestants of the Established Church ia Ireland is 860 , 000 ; but , according to Mr . Sheil , this body of Protestants includes the Methodists : perhaps we may reduce the above sum to round numbers , and

    write down 800 , 000 for the total of Episcopalian Protestants in Ireland . Now , the point at issue in the twopenny book is whether there be any surplus of the ordinary revenues of the Irish Church , after allowing decent salaries to the officiating deprgy . According to our orator , the total of these revenues amount to £ 377 , 779 , comprising the item of tithes ( exclusive of bi ^ hope * and the dean and > chapters' tithes ) , * ad two aeveral manual suras under the

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1835, page 611, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2649/page/47/