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he has lately been throwing away millions by the month ; and to gratify 

 the smokers of the Hague has gambled away Belgium. 



Another, which involves a libel on an ambassador, no less a personage 

 than Talleyrand. 



" A newspaper correspondent, giving an account of the Prince's 

 landing at Dover, expressed his surprise at seeing in Talleyrand, whom 

 he had expected to look nothing but the cunning diplomatist, f the 

 countenance of an open, candid, and honest character/ This was shewn 

 to Talleyrand, who coolly remarked, ' It must have been, I suppose, 

 in consequence of the dreadful sea-sickness I experienced in coming 

 over !' " 



The fact is, the observation was manufactured in a committee of 

 diners out, with little Luttrell in the chair. Talleyrand conceives the 

 affair an unpardonable attack on his reputation, and declares, that after 

 such an insult his embassy is at an end. We understand that he has 

 demanded his passports. 



Another : 



" The King of Naples, who died at Naples on the 8th inst., was born 

 on the 19th of August, 1777> and was consequently in his 54th year. 

 The eldest of his thirteen children, who succeeds him, was born on the 

 12th of January, 1810 his title is Ferdinand II. The late King was 

 brother to the Queen of the French." 



" The Marquis and Marchioness of Conyngham, and Lady Maria 

 Conyngham, left Slane Castle on Wednesday morning, for Italy." 



Nothing can be more malicious than the juxta-position of those two 

 paragraphs, which might by simple people be supposed to have no con- 

 nection. They however proceed from the Foreign Office, and are meant 

 to insinuate that the heads of the noble family having been so long in the 

 habit of nursing old kings, would as condescendingly be now ready to 

 take charge of a young one, the salary being handsome, and the appoint- 

 ments suitable ! 



Another : 



" The new French coinage will bear the effigy of Louis Philip. The 

 profile will be turned to the right, and on the reverse will be a crown 

 of laurel, with the words ' 5 francs, 1830.' The device round the edge 

 will be like the former pieces, ' Dieu protege la France/ in relief." 



The point here is, that the coinage should bear the effigy of a King, 

 who is merely the Mayor of Paris, or that his head should give any 

 currency to a five franc piece, when if he stays in the country six 

 months more, his life may not be worth half the money. 



Another : 



" At seven o'clock on Saturday morning two troops of the Life Guards 

 mustered at the Barracks at Knightsbridge, and marched on route to 

 Dorking, where they were quartered for the night. Yesterday they 

 were to proceed on their march to the various parts of Sussex, where 

 the disturbances are at the greatest height." 



Here the burlesque is, in supposing that any man who carried his 

 brains higher than his boots, should conceive that those portly fellows 

 with their brass helmets, steel cuirasses, and heavy horses, could by 

 possibility be sent to ferret out incendiaries who have baffled the keenness 

 of the Bow-street people, and who never appear by daylight between 

 the hours of breakfast and dinner, the only hours when a colonel of any 

 conscience could expect the Life Guards to be visible. 



Another : 



" Austria has accredited Consuls to Greece, which is said to have 



