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pensions on other grounds than even my Lady Hester Stanhope's, 

 who has the handsome sum of 1,2001. a year for wearing man's clothes 

 in Turkey, living like a Turk, talking like a Turk, and declaring that 

 Mahomet is the true prophet ! We should hear the history of many a flower 

 which of late years has blushed unseen, however conspicuous it might 

 have blushed a few years ago. Our representatives will have enough 

 to occupy them for a while, and we will tell them that if they do 

 not shew themselves in earnest in the matter, the people of England 

 will ask them questions too. 



As a specimen of the field that is open to Sir James Graham (an able 

 man, a good speaker, and sure to be a powerful man, if he persists as he 

 has begun) and his friends, we select an article lately circulated in the 

 country. 



THE WELLESLEY FAMILY. The Tories in Essex, in reply to Mr. Long 

 Wellesley's pledge that he would labour for a " shifting of the load from the 

 really industrious and productive classes to those who amass the fruits of 

 labour without the toil of gathering them," printed the following amounts of 

 the pickings of the Wellesleys from the public : 



Imprimis. The Duke of Wellington has received from the public 



purse no less a sum than 700,000 



Per An. 



In addition to which the family receive annually, in places and pen- 

 sions 14,000 



Lord Maryborough (Mr. L. W/s papa) receives, as master of the 



buck-hounds! 3,000 



Lord Cowley (Mr. L. W/s uncle) receives 12,000 



Marquis Wellesley (Mr. L. W/s uncle) receives 4,000 



A Sinecure in the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, with reversion to 



his illegitimate son ! ! ! who now enjoys 1,200 



The Rev. Gerald Wellesley ! (Mr. L. W/s uncle) receives in church 



preferments 7,000 ! 



Lady Mornington (Mr. L. W/s grandmamma) receives a pension of.. 1,000 



Lady Anne Smith (Mr. L. W/s aunt) receives a pension of 800 



Her husband (Mr. Smith) a place 1,200 



Lord Burghersh (Mr. L.W/s brother-in-law) receives 4,000 



Sir Charles Bagot (Mr. L. W/s brother-in-law) receives 12,000 



Lord Fitzroy Somerset (Mr. L. W/s brother-in-law) receives 2,000 



But the Field Marshal himself, the man of humanity, and honour, 

 and politics, and the new police ! we remember his saying that he 

 would rather " die than see the havoc of a war in Ireland !" a war which 

 would finish in a week,, as it began, with a speech of Mr. O'Connell 

 though probably in rather a different location from his favourite Corn- 

 Exchange. But with what infinite pleasantry must the " Indian 

 campaigner" have looked on the gentlemen who huzzaed this scrap 

 of sentimentality ! It was even better than Sir George Murray's 

 -harangue upon a soldier's saying his prayers. What does fact say to 

 the Grand Duke's tenderness ? Let his own letters speak for him. Here 

 is a paragraph, just published, from his letters to Sir Thomas Munro, 

 in 1800 : 



" I have taken and destroyed Doondiah's baggage, and six guns, and 

 ^driven into the Malpurba (WHERE THEY WERE DROWNED) about jive 

 thousand people ! I stormed Dummull on the 26th of July. Doondiah's 

 followers are quitting him apace, as they do not think the amusement 



