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    • AN HUMBLE PETITION.
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      I T H E T O M A H A W K: A Saturday Jour...

      I T H E T O M A H A W K : A SATURDAY JOURNAL OF SATIRE . ( BUM bjr JUijpw n § nMt "INVIPAT CULPAM QUl PECCATUM PRETERIT . "

      No. 81.] Londonnovember 2i1868. [Price T...

      No . 81 . ] LONDONNOVEMBER 2 i 1868 . [ Price Twopence . , ,

      An Humble Petition.

      AN HUMBLE PETITION .

      May It Please Your Majesty, The Near App...

      May it please your Majesty , The near approach of the first session of a new Parliament which threatens to be oneof the most eventful which this age has seen , must be our excuse for intruding on your valuable time , and once more entreating your Majesty ' s attention to a certain

      grievance , under which some of your subjects imagine themselves to be suffering . The season of Christmas , which is now so near , is from its associations some warrant for the liberty we are taking in again attempting to suggest to your Majesty a calm consideration of

      ^^ ^^^ ^ ^ ^^ ^ — — ^ — — — — j — —— — — —— — — - — — — — — that course of conduct , in which your Majesty has been confirmed by time , and from which the respectful remonstrances of your faithful subjects have hitherto failed to move you . It cannot be but that one so deeply religious , and so truly charitableas your Majesty has often proved yourselfmust earnestly

      desire , to do all that lies in her power to diminish , the sorrows and increase the joys of thoss around her . It is therefore at the risk of repeating arguments and entreaties which have hitherto proved of little avail , that we venture humbly to urge on your Majesty whether it is not possible for your subjects to

      session hops , without of Parliament a certai will nty be of marked disappoint by me , at nt any , that rate the , a coming partial resumption on your Majesty ' s part of those duties and privileges which your Majesty has for so long been compelled to leave to others . It would be disrespectful alike to the common sense and to

      the memory of your Majesty to recapitulate the many urgent reasons which exist for this hops on the part of your subjects . Their desire is father to the hope . Of course your Majesty will find plenty of advisers who , bath in print and in speech , will flatter your Majesty with the assurance that your retirement

      from Society is a matter which purely concerns yourself ; and ' that the only persons who urge your Majesty ' s return are Westend tradesmen , who find their profits unaccountably diminishing , and those idle pleasure-seekers , who miss the splendour of a Court , and to whom a great sorrow is an utterly

      incomprehensible thing . Besides these advisers , there are those judicious medical authorities who are always ready to assure the public that your Majesty's state of health absolutely requires continual absence from the metropolis , and a consistent avoidance of all those social duties which are the unfortunate penalties of sovereign power—in fact , a virtual abdication of your Majesty ' s position as head of Society , and an utter abnegation of all the

      great opportunities for doing good , which are the privileges of such a position . are We many would of humbly your entreat subjects your , neither Majesty interested to believe in that West there - of end Society millinery , yet warehouses who cannot , or bring slavish themselves worshippers to acquiesce at the shrin in the e persistent absence i » * J ^^^ M . \^ of their W »* Queen from her A natural residence .

      Y * ^** ^*» P »* W ^^ AA % m ** K ^ ^^ ^^ M . * a * MM . ^* S % ^ ^^^^ a A »^ »**¦ .-. ^— — — —— — — — — — There are those who , remembering what the Court of Victoria beheld used to the be , unusual how , after and many inestimable ' years of Royal blessing profli of gacy a Court , Eng where land the domestic affections were developed in their purest and loveliest perfection ; where the fascinating example of the Sovereign lured the leaders of Society into virtuous paths ; a Court which

      taught the young and the frivolous that , after all , good habits were a more as powerful easy to imitate barrier as against bad ; immorality a Court which than practical all the churches ly raised and in th looking e land , — round there with are those a sorrowful , we say , wonder who , remembering ment at the gradual all this , undermining of all purity which is going on around them , —the result of an unreasoning imitation ¦ of all that is bad in a foreign

      ^^ m ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ " ™™ ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^ " ^^ ^^ " ^» " ^ " ^^ ^» ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^™ ^™ ™ " " ^ ^™^ p ^ fc ^^ ^^^^ ^ " ^ ^* ^» ^ " ^ ^ ^^ ^^ —^ — — — — ^ ^^^^ frequ Court ent , and appearance in a foreign amongst Society us , — of cannot one who hel wears p yearning not the mere the fe crown ct purity of earthly ; one who sovereignty has the , but power the and far . the higher will crown to check of per the - growing supremacy of frivolity ; one who can make her voice heard throughout every home in the land , when she bids those who are rVb u and •¦*»** who sho mim uld be ¦¦ disc ¦ ard the

      contemptible V W * * ^^ « affe * ^^ yo c tation ^^ '' ng ^^ , of *•• adopti » «•• «^ w ng ¦** *»— the vw r gar ^ — pure j men ^ - — — -w ts , —— an d the m anners — — of ^ the impure . That your grief abides with you , that the body is weakened by the sufferings of the soul , we do not for one mo - ment doubt ; but , speaking in the name of those who hold truth higher than the courtier ' s art , we entreat your Majesty to come

      treat among yo us ur once Majesty more to , attempt and to save a course us from of self ourselves -sacrifice . We which encannot but meet with its reward j to claim once more that passionate devotion which only now lies rusting in the armoury of our hearts , but which in the sunshine of your Majesty ' s presence would shine as brightly as it did when there was one by your

      side to share it . If your Majesty considers the effect of your absence from your post , even from the lowest point of view , is it not a deplorable evil ? Is it nothing that men and women should be thrown out of emp ¦ loyand that v-w the ¦ modest plenty m- — ¦ - - ¦— ¦ w ¦< hich 1 ¦ —»¦ had gladdened

      ^^ T ^ ^ * r ^^ ^™ ^** ^ m ^ m ^ m j ^— - ^ v ^ m J , ^ V ^* - ^ ^ m ^^^« ^ m ^~^ m - ^ - ^ — — - ^ v ^ " ^ ^ ^^ -w ^ - ^ - ^ w ^ ^* - ™ - — m , j —— —— — — — — — — j ^^» — — ~ — — - — many a household , should be suddenly changed into a grim penury ; that all the countless comforts , which a brisk season and ample employment mean for the honest labouring poor

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Nov. 21, 1868, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_21111868/page/1/