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not rejoice more heartily than our Radical selves, at the compensation 

 awarded him for the brutal injury. We only wish the value of his 

 castle had been at least doubled in the verdict : for surely neither a 

 country nor an individual makes due reparation for an act of heinous 

 barbarity, by mere restitution of value, even when value can be ex- 

 actly measured, which in this instance it would not.* We recollect 

 too, how his Grace maintained his rights in Portman- Square with 

 true constitutional consistency, by heading his domestics and a posse 

 of police, against a herd of human tigers, or rather jackalls, who had 

 beset his mansion. Then, again, the spirited holding out of Clumber 

 against the savages of the surrounding country ! All these instances, 

 in addition to the famous original maintenance of the right to do what 

 he would with his own ; not to omit, moreover, the " Address to all 

 Classes and Conditions of Englishmen/' not long since published by 

 his Grace, prove him to be a most apt representative of those whom 

 we have designated Maintainers. 



The Tories may thank us for this selection of a pattern man from 

 them. Thoroughly averse, from their profound and inordinate folly, 

 we still despise the meanness and inhumanity of those who curiously 

 spy out their bad, and blink their redeeming qualities ; and, while we 

 would brand their politics with detestation, we make it a point of 

 honour and probity to be the more scrupulously just to their social 

 merits in other respects. Pursuing this principle of hostility, we 

 have always gladly lent an ear to detail of facts creditable to those 

 from whom, as politicians, we are altogether estranged ; nor could 

 we derive so much pleasure in overhauling a fresh and full budget of 

 Newcastle political fooleries, as we did the other day, in hearing this 

 nobleman spoken well of by a Radical acquaintance from his neigh- 

 bourhood. We rejoiced to learn from this person, that the Duke, 

 while he maintains every item of the catalogue of false political prin- 

 ciples, maintains also the character of a kind t and considerate land- 



* The fact, that this Duke's castle has never been rated at its just value, for 

 the house-tax, does not interfere with our wish, that a double compensation had 

 been awarded him. We must not have ex post facto laws to operate against the 

 aristocracy, any more than ourselves. The injury of that savage and brutal 

 burning, cannot be palliated (but by an Ultra-ltadical writer) on the score of 

 the Duke's having not been duly charged with the house-tax. The insufferable 

 iniquity of incendiarism does not admit of the slightest extenuation. Society 

 at large ought to be charged with at least double compensation to individual 

 sufferers, till it is awakened to a sense of its duty, to keep those men more 

 effectually in check, whose indirect excitement leads to such atrocities. We 

 know well enough the Ultras never write ' burn,' ' destroy ;' but they inva- 

 riably treat burning and destruction as a matter of course; and, by attributing 

 all the blame to remote causes, very intelligibly exculpate the immediate per- 

 petrators of mischief. 



f- c Kind and considerate landlord,' indeed! we think we hear some Ultra 

 exclaim. 4 Yes, friend Ultra,' we reply. ' The ejecting an independent te- 

 nant was a mere piece of class tyranny; and not a jot worse than the common 

 practice of all borough proprietors under the past corruption. Unless, O Ultra, 

 thou art prepared to maintain, that the breast of a borough proprietor must have, 

 in every instance, been closed to kindly feelings, thou must needs be convicted of 

 ungenerous ferocity towards Newcastle, if thou disbelievest in his general hu- 

 manity. He spoke out the tyranny of his class like a man. Thou, O Ultra, art 



