TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER. 5&5 



Nancy Loquitur 



This made him cry with rage and spite : 

 Well, let him cry, it serves him right. 



A pretty thing, forsooth ! 

 If he's to melt all scalding hot, 

 Half my doll's nose, and I am not 



To draw his peg top's tooth ! 



Only consider, sir, what it is you ask, in begging me to let you fight your 

 bailie in your own way ? It is not a whit less unreasonable than, that 

 Jack Lake should insist upon Nancy's standing aloof, while he ransacked 

 her drawers for more materials of mischief, instead of flying at him tooth 

 and nail, and by dint of plying these implements of defence, and squall- 

 ing out pa ! and ma ! and aunt ! endeavouring to deter him from his cruel 

 and ungenerous persecution. 



Have I not a right sir, to take humanity under my protection, as well 

 as you have ? Have I not a right, while I profess to care more about 

 the improvement and elevation of the humbler classes to the utmost 

 possible degree, than about the maintenance of any of the fictitious rights 

 of those above them; am I not justified whilst these are my most fondly 

 cherished sentiments, to extend my charitable feeling to all classes of my 

 fellow- creatures and fellow-countrymen also ? may I not be permitted 

 to make old Chremes my model, and adopt, and act upon his memorable 

 and heart-touching sentiment, " Homo sum : humamnihil a me alienum puto?" 

 And, if all this be lawful for me, and expedient moreover, nay incum- 

 bent on me as an anxious and sincere friend of the whole human race; 

 can I listen to your peevish remonstrance, and stand out of the way, 

 whilst you, as I believe, wantonly and in effect, though not in intention, 

 cruelly ill treat a large class of men ? Truth, my powerful though 

 invisible ally, whispers " No;" and amongst those* even, whose 

 admiration of you is all but boundless, I confidently expect sooner or 

 later, to re;ip some harvest from the seed I may scatter. I look forward 

 in due time to the gratification of adding one more to the many proofs 

 constantly accumulating, that magna esl veritas et prcevalibet. 



But, ere I pass on to other points, I must make one more lunge at 

 your conscience. 



In one of your papers a few weeks back, you fell sorely foul 

 of the Times, for having taken no further notice of one of your 

 attacks, than by calling the Examiner, " a certain low radical jour- 

 nal" You very pertinently observed, that herein consisted no ar- 

 ment; that coming from the Times newspaper, it was virtually 

 as vulgar and inconclusive, as the common cad-and-porter-slang 

 of the streets; that it amounted to " Vy ye low warment! d'ye 

 think I'd step aside to notice sich as you ? I wally ye no more rior the 

 dirt under foot !" This was, I perfectly recollect, the tenour of your 

 indignant animadversion. But you then felt for your own dear self, and 

 could see clearly enough, the essential unworthiness of mere abuse. Let 

 me tell you, sir, that no such contemptuous passing remark of the Times, 

 upon a journalist, who, though perhaps with justice, is still a provoking 

 opponent, can be compared for deliberate, ill-natured, virulence, with 

 the gross misrepresentation of the body of the clergy, to which my 

 attack has excited you. I must here quote your own words. " We have 

 made observations unfavourable to the clergy as a body, in this way : 

 that, if a case of unsuitable rigour appears ; the committal for felony of 



