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honourable member insinuates, that but for such or such a thing, the 

 honourable member who last addressed the house, would have given 

 utterance to very different sentiments. The latter flings back the in- 

 sinuation with scorn and contempt, and takes the opportunity of 

 sending a counter-insinuation by the same conveyance, which is 

 again flung back in the legitimate shuttlecock style. But honourable 

 members are pacific, A third party declares, that the words first 

 used by his gallant friend, will not, probably, bear the construction 



which has been put upon them by the honourable member for , 



and by his volunteered explanation, he goes near to prove that they 

 can. The aggressor confirms the mediator's opinion, and, matters 

 standing thus, the party attacked would be less than human if he 

 rejected the explanation. Consequently he is satisfied, and not to be 

 outdone in the palinode, he begs to assure the gallant member for 

 , that in his remarks upon that gentleman, he meant no- 

 thing personal. Of course not ! 







OURHONEST BRITISH TRADESMEN ! Your " honest British trades- 

 man" is the greatest rogue in the universe. His constant boast is, 

 that " he pays his way, and owes no man a shilling." He owes no 

 man a shilling, because he knows by experience he will be robbed if 

 he runs a bill : and he pays his way, because he is obliged. Your 

 honest British tradesman is a great physiognomist ; he has seventeen 

 prices for every article in his shop, and regulates them as he sees the 

 lines of gullability more or less developed in the countenance of his 

 customer. Industry and economy are his household terms ; that is, 

 he makes his people work, day and night, and half starves their fami- 

 lies. He is a great stickler for the love of his country ; that is, if a 

 hungry pauper steals a loaf, he transports him if he can. He is a de- 

 voted admirer of his country's institutions ; that is, if any servant 

 live to be too old for labour, he sends him to the workhouse. He is 

 a stern clamourer for justice ; that is, if a debtor be ill and cannot pay, 

 he thrusts him into prison to die. He is no bigot in politics. If times 

 are good that is, if he can rob at his ease, he cries, " Down with the 

 vile radicals !" if the reverse that is, if his profits are reduced to 50 

 per cent, he is a rectifier of abuses, and cries, " Down with the mi- 

 nistry \" He is no bigot in religion. If he serves the Bishop of Lon- 

 don, he is for " Church and King" if the presbytery, he cries, 

 " Down with the tithes !" He follows literally the apostle's command, 

 he is " all things to all men." HE is A KNAVE ! Read the following : 



" Tricks of Trade. Every day affords practical illustrations of the 

 contemptible tricks to which some tradesmen have recourse, in order 

 to force the sale of their commodities. This was the case lately, at the 

 shop of a haberdasher, on Ludgate-hill. A lady, accompanied by a 

 gentleman, perceiving a quantity of ribbon marked in the window for 

 sale, all at Sld.j entered the shop, and desired the person behind the 

 counter would cut her off eight yards : with a simpering self-suffi- 

 ciency, he said that the price of 8^d. applied to the narrow as well as 

 to the broad ribbon, and unless an equal quantity of both were taken, 

 it could not be sold at that price. The lady observed, that she thought 

 this was unfair dealing, and quite inconsistent with the conduct of a 



